Jonathan Keeperman

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Jonathan Keeperman
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Jonathan Keeperman, also known by his pseudonym "Lomez" (stylised L0m3z), leads Passage Publishing, also known as Passage Press, an American far-right and "new right" publisher. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Keeperman was a University of California, Irvine, lecturer from 2013 to 2022. [1]

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Founded in 2021, Passage publishes works from online personalities, reprints and new translations of fiction and nonfiction from historical fascist and reactionary authors. [1]

Biography

Keeperman was born to a Jewish family and was raised in Moraga, California. [1] He celebrated his bar mitzvah in 1996. [1] [6] In college, he played for the University of California, San Diego, basketball team. [1] Keeperman was a master of fine arts student at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and was a lecturer in the university's English department from 2013 to 2022. [1] [4]

He began blogging with the "Mr Lomez" pseudonym in 2006, according to The Guardian . [2] He used the Lomez identity from 2012 to 2014 in the comment section of Steve Sailer's blog posts, and then on Twitter accounts since around 2015. [1] Lomez has used anti-gay and anti-Asian slurs, referenced white nationalist memes, proposed journalists should be lynched, and promoted a conspiracy theory that Barack Obama is gay. [3] In the 2020s, Lomez wrote in The American Mind, The Federalist , and an anti-feminist essay in First Things. [1]

In 2024, the "Lomez" Twitter persona associated with Passage Publishing was revealed by The Guardian to be Keeperman. [2] In an interview with The Blaze , he indicated that "Lomez" is a Seinfeld reference. [7]

Publishing

Passage Publishing

Passage Publishing, also known as Passage Press, is a far-right and "new right" publisher led by Keeperman. [1] [2] [5] [3] It was founded in 2021 out of the Passage Prize, an online writing and arts competition offering a $20,000 cryptocurrency prize for selected works. The judges were neoreactionary Curtis Yarvin and self-published author "Zero HP Lovecraft." [8] [1] Passage Publishing has published two books resulting from its Passage Prize writing and art competitions. [9] [ independent source needed ] In 2023, Passage Prize was rebranded as "Passage Publishing," and was expanded through acquisitions of Mystery Grove Publishing. [10] Passage has published compendiums from online figures Nick Land,[ citation needed ] Steve Sailer, and Curtis Yarvin. [1] Through its imprint Passage Classics, Passage Publishing also offers works by, as described by The Guardian , "radical German nationalist and militarist Ernst Jünger; Peter Kemp, who fought as a volunteer in Franco’s army during the Spanish civil war; and two counter-revolutionary Russian aristocrats, White Russian general Pyotr Wrangel and Prince Serge Obolensky". [1] [11]

Passage Publishing also engages in cultural projects, including sponsoring events. [12] [13] Fashion designer Elena Velez, a habitué of the Dimes Square scene, [14] has been sponsored by Passage [15] and cited the company and its founder as inspiration. [16]

Man's World is a bi-annual men's magazine published by Passage Publishing. [1] [17] [18] Raw Egg Nationalist, the pseudonymous British writer who leads the magazine, and Keeperman, were described by The Guardian as "prominent members of the so-called 'new right.'" [1] Raw Egg Nationalist is a "key thinker within frogtwitter" and a member of the right-wing bodybuilder community whose cookbook with the white nationalist publisher Antelope Hill advocates "the massive consumption of raw eggs", as described by the Global Network on Extremism and Technology. [19]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Wilson, Jason (May 14, 2024). "Revealed: US university lecturer behind far-right Twitter account and publishing house". The Guardian . London. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved May 14, 2024. The emergence of Passage Press and other such publishers has been a key part of the development of a swathe of the current American far right
  2. 1 2 3 4 Breland, Ali (June 10, 2024). "The Far Right's New 'Badge of Honor'". The Atlantic . Washington, D.C. ISSN   1072-7825 . Retrieved October 9, 2024. The far-right publisher known as 'Lomez' kept his identity private, and for good reason. His company, Passage Publishing, has printed books from a German nationalist, anti-democracy monarchists, and white supremacists promoting 'human biodiversity.'
  3. 1 2 3 Beauchamp, Zack (August 27, 2024). "An inside look at how the far right is mainstreaming itself". Vox . Retrieved November 29, 2024.
  4. 1 2 Ahmari, Sohrab (May 16, 2024). "America's dime-store Nietzscheans". New Statesman . London. ISSN   1364-7431 . Retrieved November 30, 2024.
  5. 1 2 "Extremism Headlines: Pelosi attacker, Atomwaffen plot, far-right university lecturer". Southern Poverty Law Center . May 17, 2024. Retrieved November 30, 2024. the prominent 'new right' publishing house Passage Press ... Passage Press and similar publishers play a role in the development of the American far right
  6. ↑ "Life-Cycles - B'nai Mitzvah". J. The Jewish News of Northern California . November 29, 1996. p. 44. Retrieved February 7, 2025.
  7. ↑ Himes, Matt (May 30, 2024). "Why is the media out to get Jonathan Keeperman?". The Blaze . Retrieved November 30, 2024.
  8. ↑ Wilson, Kit (November 24, 2021). "The rise of the neoclassical reactionaries". The Spectator . London. ISSN   0038-6952 . Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  9. ↑ "Passage Publishing". Passage Publishing. Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  10. ↑ @PassagePress (December 11, 2023). "🚨🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨🚨" (Tweet). Retrieved May 9, 2024– via Twitter.
  11. ↑ "Passage Classics". Passage Publishing. Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  12. ↑ Friedman, Vanessa (September 14, 2023). "Post-Pandemic Dressing Finally Takes Shape". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  13. ↑ Testa, Jessica (September 13, 2023). "Should Making It in Fashion Be This Hard?". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  14. ↑ Tashjian, Rachel (February 12, 2024). "Fashion's problematic fave is Elena Velez". The Washington Post . ISSN   0190-8286. Archived from the original on April 11, 2024. Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  15. ↑ Moore, Booth (February 13, 2024). "Elena Velez Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear: Finding Opportunity Beyond the Runway". Women's Wear Daily . New York City. ISSN   0043-7581. Archived from the original on February 13, 2024. Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  16. ↑ Lee, Justin (September 19, 2023). "What I saw at the Longhouse Fashion Show". First Things . New York City. ISSN   1047-5141 . Retrieved May 9, 2024.
  17. ↑ Burnett, Scott (2023). "Healthy White Nationalists: Far-Right Selbstbilder in a Digital Age". In Brookes, Gavin; Chałupnik, Małgorzata (eds.). Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 161–188. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-38407-3_7. ISBN   978-3-031-38407-3.
  18. ↑ Tebaldi, Catherine; Burnett, Scott (January 18, 2025). "The Science of Desire: Beauty, Masculinity, and Ideology on the Far Right". Journal of Right-Wing Studies. 2 (2). doi: 10.5070/RW3.1604 . ISSN   2770-9698.
  19. ↑ Molloy, Joshua (October 10, 2022). "The Emerging Raw Food Movement and the 'Great Reset'". Global Network on Extremism and Technology . Retrieved October 9, 2024.
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