What Does It Mean When I Say "Politics Are Fandom"?

thought digest, 04.23.2023

I recently finished reading a paper titled "A Board of One's Own: Interviewing the Anonymous Female Imageboard Community."

Two quotes, in particular, caught my attention:

Where the Web is trending towards “a replica of our lives in networks, open to capital and closed to experimentation” (Knuttila, 2011), anonymity serves as an anti-establishment tool, c…