Re: <nettime> CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques

["Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid)" <I.M.Hoofd@uu.nl>]

Hi Ana, sure, you're most welcome to submit an abstract along those lines. The points that you mention - pro-vax imperialism in the former colonies for instance, and yhe qmbiguous ways in which it finds its way back into empire - are also very much part of what the event seeks to unpack.

I feel there exists a distinct and problematic form of boundary policing from what identifies as 'the left' today, resulting in any critique of lockdowns and provax sentiment starting from left-wing values being too easily dismissed as 'right-wing.' A better critique of class in relation to all this is especially sorely missing. Hence my retort of 'knee-jerk.'

Cheers, Ingrid.

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From: Ana Teixeira Pinto <a.n.a.t.e.i.x.e.i.r.a.p.i.n.t.o@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2022 2:00:52 PM
To: Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid) <I.M.Hoofd@uu.nl>
Cc: nettime-l@kein.org <nettime-l@kein.org>
Subject: Re: <nettime> CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques

 

I would not call Florian's response a knee-jerk reaction, and also find it difficult to sketch out an anti-racist position without addressing vaccine equity, or the adjacency of anti-vaccine rhetoric to narratives of reverse colonialism entailing the subjugation of white people; not to mention their rabid antisemitism. I would not foreclose a left-wing critique of government policy but would agree with Florian that its dangerous to couch far-right sentiment in left wing discourse.

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 1:06 PM Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid) <I.M.Hoofd@uu.nl> wrote:

Your knee-jerk response is an excellent example of elitist and false-oppositional ‘left’ thinking that has completely fallen for the government and big-pharma propaganda, and forgets to think critically about power structures, knowing very well that right-wing and left-wing, while also entertaining huge differences, are not pure opposites. Baudet would be proud of you; he can rake in the spoils.

Cheers, Ingrid.

 

 

From: Florian Cramer <flrncrmr@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, 20 January 2022 13:00
To: Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid) <I.M.Hoofd@uu.nl>
Cc: nettime-l@kein.org
Subject: Re: <nettime> CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques

 

- Government propaganda and censorship around lockdown and vaccination

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- The role of mass and social media in anti- or pro-lockdown or vaccine propaganda, political polarization and forms of media virality (eg. via covid-19 memes)

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- Mandatory vaccine rollouts as assaults to the feminist appeal to bodily autonomy

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- Ethical considerations regarding mass experimentation, moral shaming and lateral citizen surveillance

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- Teleological and theological narratives of science as salvation (eg. via vaccinations)

 

All beautiful examples of a "Querfront" discourse where extreme right positions are packaged  in left-wing rhetoric. Not a single point, however, on minorities and vulnerable people and communities endangered by anti-vaccer egoism, and neo-Darwinist politics - for example in the UK, Sweden and the Netherlands, of "herd immunity" through survival of the fittest.

 

You should invite Dutch experts Willem Engel and Thierry Baudet as keynote speakers.

 

-F

 

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