This article makes a critical contribution to the study of digital reactionary movements by tracing the resonant circulation of “the cuck” memes across various levels of racialized and gendered subjectivity. It argues that the cuck meme resonates through composing an affective narrative of deferred and stolen enjoyment at the intersection of personal, social, and international politics. It follows the meme’s digital movements across pornographic anxieties around the sexual prowess of the Black other (the personal), the Gamergate events of 2014 and its politics of geek masculine injury (the social), and the perceived threat of immigration to the enjoyment-space designated as the nation (the international). Throughout, the paper makes three contributions. First, it theorizes the structuring role played by enjoyment as a political factor in historically shaping political subjectivity. Second, it shows how this political factor animates the transnational politics of contemporary reactionary movements and how they affectively and discursively perceive their various political resentments through narratives of enjoyment. Third, it demonstrates how memes as specific technical-aesthetic products allow the common resonance and articulation of these various resentments to shape a site of rectification for an enjoyment that is felt to be lost.

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Cucktales：反动模因景观中的种族、性和享受


本文通过追踪“cuck”模因在不同种族和性别主观层面的共振循环，对数字反动运动的研究做出了重要贡献。它认为，“cuck meme”通过在个人、社会和国际政治的交叉点上撰写关于延迟和被盗享受的情感叙事来引起共鸣。它追踪了模因的数字运动，跨越了围绕黑人他者的性能力（个人）的色情焦虑、2014 年的玩家门事件及其极客男性伤害的政治（社会），以及移民对享受空间的威胁指定为国家（国际）。自始至终，本文做出了三项贡献。首先，它将享受作为政治因素在历史上塑造政治主体性中发挥的结构性作用理论化。其次，它展示了这一政治因素如何激发当代反动运动的跨国政治，以及他们如何通过享乐叙事情感地和话语地感知他们的各种政治怨恨。第三，它展示了模因作为特定的技术美学产品如何让这些不同的怨恨产生共同的共鸣和表达，从而为人们感到失去的享受塑造一个纠正场所。