| Tatiana Bazzichelli on Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:12:12 +0100 (CET) |
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| Re: <nettime> THE Q IN QONSPIRACY: QAnon as a Paradigm for Future Social-media-driven Conspiracism |
Dear all, I answer to Keith's question writing to the whole list because it might interest other people, too. If you would like to listen to the conversation of last Friday, THE Q IN QONSPIRACY, with Wu Ming 1, Florian Cramer and myself, you can find the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD9U9bQUlSs More info about the event (scroll down): https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays All the best, and enjoy! Tatiana On 13.03.21 05:21, Keith Sanborn wrote: > Dear Tatiana: > > Was there supposed to be a live feed of that conversation? I couldn’t find it when accessing your site by phone. Wd like to keep up with the series. > > Keith Sanborn > >> On Mar 11, 2021, at 4:41 AM, Tatiana Bazzichelli <tbazz@disruptiv.biz> wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I would like to invite you to take part in a conversation with Wu Ming >> 1, Florian Cramer and myself tomorrow afternoon (March 12), as part of >> our Disruptive Fridays series, at 5PM CET. We can get questions from the >> audience via chat. >> Read more here (and go to the chat): https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays >> >> Since 2020 we have been experiencing two pandemics at once: Covid-19 and >> conspiracy fantasies about Covid-19. The pandemic emergency accelerated >> a process that had been going on for years: the rise of a new kind of >> hyper-charged, social-media-driven conspiracism. In this respect, QAnon >> is a paradigmatic case. >> >> What is QAnon, or what was it? A political movement, a game, a cult, a >> terrorist threat? All that and more. >> >> In this conversation QAnon is discussed as a template for contemporary >> social-media-driven conspiracy fantasies that work simultaneously as >> games and a new kind of cults. By focusing on the mutation of conspiracy >> myths from countercultural phenomena to contemporary meme and influencer >> culture, Florian Cramer and Wu Ming 1 will focus on three conspiracy >> narratives: "The Great Replacement" (from Renaud Camus to >> Charlottesville), QAnon (from Pizzagate to the Capitol storming) and >> "The Great Reset" (as a set of pandemic-inspired variations on the old >> New World Order trope). >> >> The conversation is centered around Wu Ming 1's forthcoming book "La Q >> di Qomplotto" [The Q in qonspiracy], to be published end of March in >> Italian by Edizioni Alegre, which describes how conspiracy fantasies >> help legitimise systems of control (find here the index in English >> https://edizionialegre.it/notizie/the-q-in-conspiracy/). >> >> Join us tomorrow here at 5PM CET: >> https://www.disruptionlab.org/fridays >> >> Get reminders from here (Facebook video): >> https://www.facebook.com/disruptionlab/posts/2664839330428196 >> >> This is a pre-event of our upcoming conference (March 18-20): >> BEHIND THE MASK: WHISTLEBLOWING DURING THE PANDEMIC >> Whistleblowers, human rights advocates, journalists, activists, artists, >> lawyers and researchers denouncing abuses and wrongdoing in the course >> of the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. >> https://www.disruptionlab.org/behind-the-mask >> >> All the best, and see you there! >> >> Tatiana >> -- >> Tatiana Bazzichelli // Founder & Artistic Director >> Disruption Network Lab >> http://disruptionlab.org >> Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz >> Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 >> >> -- >> Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director >> Disruption Network Lab >> http://disruptionlab.org >> Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz >> Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 >> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission >> # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, >> # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets >> # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l >> # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org >> # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: > -- Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director Disruption Network Lab http://disruptionlab.org Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: