“Remaking the world memetically”: interrogating white nationalist subject formation through the circulation of the “Wagecuck” meme

IF 1.1 1区文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION

Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI:10.1080/14791420.2023.2228867

Reed Van Schenck

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This essay examines the wagecuck, a 4chan meme portraying wage workers and NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) counterparts, as an artifact of white nationalist desire. Through a rhetorical materialist analysis focused on exchange, I argue that wagecuck memes encourage viewers to pursue white recognition to offset anxieties of race, class, and sexuality. The meme circulates cuckold and wage-slave tropes to construct the white working-class man as a human agent in pursuit of antiblack jouissance. This research identifies the fantasy of racial agency as the meme’s operative logic, encouraging scholars to move beyond its humanist underpinnings.

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“以模因重塑世界”：通过“Wagecuck”模因的传播来质疑白人民族主义主体的形成

摘要本文探讨了wageuck，一个4chan模因，将工薪阶层和非教育、就业或培训领域的同行描绘成白人民族主义欲望的产物。通过一种侧重于交流的修辞唯物主义分析，我认为wageuck模因鼓励观众追求白人的认可，以抵消对种族、阶级和性的焦虑。这个迷因流传着戴绿帽子和工资奴隶的比喻，将白人工人阶级塑造成一个追求反黑人快感的人类代理人。这项研究将种族代理的幻想确定为模因的运作逻辑，鼓励学者超越其人文主义基础。

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Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies Multiple-

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3.10

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期刊介绍： Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (CC/CS) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. CC/CS publishes original scholarship that situates culture as a site of struggle and communication as an enactment and discipline of power. The journal features critical inquiry that cuts across academic and theoretical boundaries. CC/CS welcomes a variety of methods including textual, discourse, and rhetorical analyses alongside auto/ethnographic, narrative, and poetic inquiry.