Guest Bio: Suzanne van Geuns is a doctoral student at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation project is an ethnographic investigation of three overlapping online subcultures that use the internet to launch right-wing futures: conservative Christianity, antifeminism, and white nationalism. All three of these fields are characterized by the conviction that they are salvaging beleaguered truths about reality from feminist/leftist/multiculturalist suppression. This project asks how these subcultures connect such transcendental truths to the material world, investigating what techniques are brought together online to make a white, rigidly gendered, and/or biblical world not only feel desirable, but also tangibly real. Mapping the online infrastructures of right-wing aspiration, this project renders the futures they generate debatable in new ways.
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