Manosfera Maquinal: de máquinbas abstractas en la comunidad incel al devenir de las masculinidades virtuales

Abstract

Incel forums, content flows with statements that promote the ideal and expected behavior of men. In some cases, this leads to masculinist stances based on misogynistic discourses that nourish the digital space of the manosphere. This content is evidence of the existence of digital communities that adopt forms of self-help, culminating in forms of subjectivation with tendencies toward self-destruction. Therefore, the challenge of experimenting with new research methodologies to account for the emergence of masculinities in virtual social environments is recognized. For this reason, the general objective is to understand, through schizoanalysis, how the flow and production of content in the virtual social spaces of the manosphere and the Incel community influence the construction of masculinities. This will be achieved through three specific objectives: First, to identify forms of enunciation in the flow of content in the manosphere that reveal machinic assemblages of masculinities in social networks. Second, to deconstruct, through schizoanalysis, the machinic functions and structures that construct masculinities. Third, to explain how forms of masculinity are constructed on social media through self-help and self-destructive pronouncements within the Incel community. This research reveals the potential of schizoanalysis to deconstruct processes of digital mediation and the construction of masculinities. It concludes that pragmatic analysis methodologies are essential for understanding the construction of unique forms of masculinity in relation to virtual mediations