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

[Tatiana Bazzichelli]

Dear all,

I answer to Heath'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 12.03.21 18:30, heath bunting wrote:
> is there a recording of this ?
> 
> 
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, 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
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>> Disruption Network Lab
>> http://disruptionlab.org
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>> Disruption Network Lab
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>> Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz
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Tatiana Bazzichelli // Artistic Director
Disruption Network Lab
http://disruptionlab.org
Twitter: @disruptberlin // @t_bazz
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