Re: <nettime> THE Q IN QONSPIRACY: QAnon as a Paradigm for Future Social-media-driven Conspiracism

[Keith Sanborn <mrzero@panix.com>]

Thanks!

> On Mar 16, 2021, at 10:11 AM, Tatiana Bazzichelli <tbazz@disruptiv.biz> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>> -- 
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>>> Disruption Network Lab
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> Disruption Network Lab
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