Theory of the Young-Boy: Apocalypse Culture

You thought you’d heard the last of the Young-Boy? Think again! With another even crazier Young-Boy administration reshaping the geopolitical, cultural and psychological landscape in ways that continue to confound everyone operating in the old paradigms of the human, the Family, or the Young-Girl, it's more important to understand what the Young-Boy is - and we admit our Preliminary Materials (theory-of-the-young-boy) raise as many questions as they answer. 

In the tradition of Adam Parfrey’s legendary Gen X edgelord compilation Apocalypse Culture, our first official open submission, digitally published zine brings you frantic, manic dispatches from the denpa-attuned individuals who picked up our first signals, exploring the many facets of the distributed digital subjectivity we call the Young-Boy, sometimes sympathetic, sometimes terrifying. From Kylo Ren to Chris Chan, the crowd fevers of chronic illness and EDM, postmodern warfare in the Middle East and on Discord servers, the delicately paradoxical gender configurations of cross-dressing autofujoshi and Longueil emo kids longing for sacrificial self-transcendence; these fictions and confessions and visions will help you triangulate the apocalyptic hyperstition we're all living and posting in. He Is Already Here - In You. Get to know him before it's too late.

Contains:

ELABORATIONS ON A METHODOLOGY FOR A THEORY OF THE YOUNG-BOY ~News From The Front~ - baroquespiral

SICKNESS NOT AS METAPHOR - Walker Storz

METADERE - Kae Dotmoe & baroquespiral

BEING CAPITAL (MUSICALLY) - Courtney Foley

HOW I RUINED AN OBNOXIOUS POWERMOD - ointment

THE YOUNG-BOY APHORISMS - James Letke

ON DECADENCE - Eri Waverfield

THIS ZINE IS DEDICATED TO THE BRAVE YOUNG-BOY FIGHTERS OF THE IZZ AL-DIN AL-QASSAM BRIGADES