Cancel-culture gotcha logic is a flat, horizontal malice rather than radical praxis.

Evidence

Disjection, the one-against-one opposite of affirmation, is an equally flat malice, whose quotidian installment is denunciatory exclusion. Snap judgment, main character of the day, zero tolerance: at varying levels of carceral severity, it is a common logic, cultural theorist Mark Fisher argues, of propagating guilt. What he refers to as “the Vampire Castle” is this fort of disjection, the bloodsucking gotcha ethos behind “a priest’s desire to excommunicate and condemn, an academic-pedant’s desire to be the first to be seen to spot a mistake, and a hipster’s desire to be one of the in-crowd.” — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 103

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines disjection, the second pole of the affirmation/denunciation binary, via Mark Fisher’s ‘Vampire Castle.’