Samuel Veissiere draws on anthropology, clinical work in a polarisation clinic, and attachment theory to analyse love and intimacy under digital conditions. He frames contemporary phenomena such as declining sexual activity among educated young adults, app-mediated mate selection, and incel discourse as diagnostic signals of broader ecological change, where online systems amplify attention inequalities, status competition, and epistemic fragmentation. The talk advances an evolutionary-developmental account of pair-bonding and attachment, distinguishes passionate love from companionate stability, and argues that digital dating environments intensify sex-linked constraints while deteriorating the conditions for durable social connection.
Incel Vs. Femsing: Mating and Celibacy in Human Evolution and the Late Digital Age
Presented by Samuel Veissiere
Hosted by Rohan Khanna, Milton Rosenbaum
Digital intimacyAttachment theoryIncel discourse|March 14, 2025•1:34:36
An anthropological and clinical analysis of love in the digital age, using incel discourse, attachment theory, and dating-app dynamics to explain shifting patterns of intimacy and social connection.