[resource-net] THE Q IN QONSPIRACY: QAnon as a Paradigm for Future Social-media-driven Conspiracism

[Tatiana Bazzichelli]

Dear all,

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 11.03.21 10:44, Tatiana Bazzichelli 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 // Artistic Director
Disruption Network Lab
http://disruptionlab.org
Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz
Fingerprint: A87C 3637 03ED 1D1C E6FE E828 1F55 2B2F F5A5 C9A0