Díaz Fernández, S. (2026). Reactionary dis/affect: exploring the affective politicization in the manosphere
Abstract. This article examines the affective politicization of the manosphere, focusing on how a discourse of dis/affect shapes its political imaginaries. This theory-building piece with ethnographic insight conceptualizes the manosphere as an affective space embedded in digital affect culture. Drawing on theories of disaffection as a politics of feeling, the article argues that manospheric actors appropriate and rearticulate the affective logic of disaffection through narratives of male grievance, dispossession and perceived victimization.