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Episode 21: ELLIOT RODGER PLAYS HIMSELF (Mike Crumplar)
New Models
English - February 10, 2020 00:00 - 35 minutes - 82 MB - ★★★★★ - 111 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: "A Meditation on FOMO" by LIL INTERNET
Next Episode: EP 22: REAL MAGICK (Alex Kazemi)
Featuring Washington D.C.-based writer/editor MIKE CRUMPLAR, whose work focuses on radicalization in America and the systemic drivers of incel culture. This January, Mike published the first segment of a project that looks at the autobiographical writings of Isla Vista spree shooter Elliot Rodger. His Framework takes Elliot not as author, but as subject—a protagonist trapped in his own novel as an unwitting byproduct of American late-capitalism.
For more: https://twitter.com/mcrumps
Key texts: https://mcrumps.com/2020/01/07/blissful-beginnings-elliot-rodgers-sexual-awakening/ & https://jacobitemag.com/2018/05/21/the-aeneid-for-incels/