Dear all I found the article at this link of interest with respect to this thread.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n02/rivka-galchen/whack-a-mole All best wishes B On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 at 21:06, Sean Cubitt <sean.cub...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > good point david > there's another example reported in today's Guardian (the story has been > running for a while' with a similar story about the oil industry > > https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/18/exxon-texas-courts-critics-climate-crimes > > seán > ------------------------------ > *From:* David Garcia <d.gar...@new-tactical-research.co.uk> > *Sent:* Saturday, 22 January 2022 10:45 pm > *To:* Sean Cubitt <sean.cub...@unimelb.edu.au>; nettime-l@mail.kein.org < > nettime-l@mail.kein.org> > *Subject:* [EXT] Re: <nettime> CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic > politics: left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques > > * External email: Please exercise caution * > ------------------------------ > > .. The commodification of ignorance .. > > > > In his uncharacteristically angry book ‘Down to Earth: Politics in the New > Climate Regime’, Bruno Latour describes Ignorance on the part of the > public as a “precious commodity” justifying immense investments. And in a > useful footnote he points to the great manual on the active production of > ignorance in the case of the tobacco industry being Robert Procter’s Golden > Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition > (Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 2011). > > > > David Garcia > > > > > > *From: *<nettime-l-boun...@mail.kein.org> on behalf of Sean Cubitt < > sean.cub...@unimelb.edu.au> > *Date: *Saturday, 22 January 2022 at 00:25 > *To: *"nettime-l@mail.kein.org" <nettime-l@mail.kein.org> > *Subject: *Re: <nettime> CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: > left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques > > > > some notes from a manuscript on Truth I've been working on: the problem > seems to be one of inadequate distrust.... > > > > The problem with neo-populists is not that they distrust the media but > that they trust them too much (and trust the wrong media). They do not seem > to distrust advertising, software, fiction and the twitter feeds of > billionaires. Their trust makes them angry, and the amplifications of their > trusted media mobilise anger as hatred. ‘Freedom’ as war cry allows > isolated, fearful and therefore combative people to feel they follow a > common purpose, never noticing the paradox that following is unfree. On the > other side, ‘trusting the science’ is as dubious as trusting the Lord: both > have a sorry record of condoning and causing genocide and ecocide from the > Inquisition to Hiroshima. This is why methodical distrust is essential, why > we need the analytic aspect of consideration *of* – to consider where we > are, what we can do and what effects our actions might take, informed by > consideration *for* – caring, nurturing, loving (the alien): considering > the consequences of truth statements, practices or performances of truth. > Truth is a practice, but so is untruth, and they cannot be distinguished by > whether they are successful or not, by whatever measure we apply. The > natural, social and human sciences no longer pretend to possess absolute > truth. It is in general a hallmark of neo-populist, not to say neo-fascist > politicians and political movements to claim that they do. They proclaim > their one true God, the alternate fact, that trumps all collective wisdom > that says there is no single truth and no single place to interpret it > from. Truth is not whole, stable, coherent, universal or eternal: truth is > performed. > > > > There is much more to say about the dispersed subjectivity of the network > condition and the in-built tendency to managerialism (we should be > translating 'cybernetes' as 'manager') in the no-longer humancyborg > corporations that manage networks; about the epidemic of anxiety and > bewilderment and the anger they breed. Etcetera. > > Seán Cubitt | He/Him > > Professor of Screen Studies > School of Culture and Communication > W104 John Medley Building > University of Melbourne > Grattan Street > Victoria 3010 > AUSTRALIA > > > > scub...@unimelb.edu.au > > > > New Book: Anecdotal Evidence > > > https://global.oup.com/academic/product/anecdotal-evidence-9780190065720?lang=en&cc=au# > <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/anecdotal-evidence-9780190065720?lang=en&cc=au> > > Latest from the Lambert Nagle writing partnership > > https://books2read.com/u/4NXA1W > > > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* nettime-l-boun...@mail.kein.org <nettime-l-boun...@mail.kein.org> > on behalf of nettime-l-requ...@mail.kein.org < > nettime-l-requ...@mail.kein.org> > *Sent:* Friday, 21 January 2022 7:53 pm > *To:* nettime-l@mail.kein.org <nettime-l@mail.kein.org> > *Subject:* nettime-l Digest, Vol 172, Issue 22 > > > > Send nettime-l mailing list submissions to > nettime-l@mail.kein.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/BLL_C1WZKqhM3NlQJtLV6TF?domain=mx.kein.org > <http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l> > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > nettime-l-requ...@mail.kein.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > nettime-l-ow...@mail.kein.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of nettime-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: > left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques (hans christian voigt) > 2. Re: CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: > left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques (Ana Teixeira Pinto) > 3. Re: CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: > left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques (Ana Teixeira Pinto) > 4. Re: CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: > left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques (Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid)) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 19:10:26 +0200 > From: hans christian voigt <sozw...@gmail.com> > To: "nettim...@kein.org" <nettim...@kein.org> > Subject: Re: <nettime> CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: > left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques > Message-ID: <98ba5664-8a22-42a0-a57c-bada5bbcd...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > I?d say the verdict "an excellent example of [..] 'left? thinking that has > completely fallen for the government and big-pharma propaganda" was the end > of any critical discussion. > > That and further indication that Florians doubts don?t seem far fetched. > > chr. > > > > > > > > From: Florian Cramer <flrnc...@gmail.com> > > Sent: Thursday, 20 January 2022 13:00 > > To: Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid) <i.m.ho...@uu.nl> > > Cc: nettim...@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 > > [...] > > - 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) > > [...] > > - Mandatory vaccine rollouts as assaults to the feminist appeal to > bodily autonomy > > [...] > > - Ethical considerations regarding mass experimentation, moral shaming > and lateral citizen surveillance > > [...] > > - 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 > > > > # 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: > https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/BLL_C1WZKqhM3NlQJtLV6TF?domain=mx.kein.org > <http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l> > > # archive: > https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/S6fMC2xZLrcp1zgD5u1H5ot?domain=nettime.org > <http://www.nettime.org> contact: nett...@kein.org > > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:00:52 +0100 > From: Ana Teixeira Pinto <a.n.a.t.e.i.x.e.i.r.a.p.i.n....@gmail.com> > To: "Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid)" <i.m.ho...@uu.nl> > Cc: "nettim...@kein.org" <nettim...@kein.org> > Subject: Re: <nettime> CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: > left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques > Message-ID: > <CAJDk3ALoyADSu= > sgx6yms9xn7jkh8zzofjbdcvxpgsvuwxn...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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.ho...@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 <flrnc...@gmail.com> > > *Sent:* Thursday, 20 January 2022 13:00 > > *To:* Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid) <i.m.ho...@uu.nl> > > *Cc:* nettim...@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 > > > > [...] > > > > - 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) > > > > [...] > > > > - Mandatory vaccine rollouts as assaults to the feminist appeal to bodily > > autonomy > > > > [...] > > > > - Ethical considerations regarding mass experimentation, moral shaming > and > > lateral citizen surveillance > > > > [...] > > > > - 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 > > > > > > # 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: > https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/BLL_C1WZKqhM3NlQJtLV6TF?domain=mx.kein.org > <http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l> > > # archive: > https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/S6fMC2xZLrcp1zgD5u1H5ot?domain=nettime.org > <http://www.nettime.org> contact: nett...@kein.org > > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mx.kein.org/pipermail/nettime-l/attachments/20220120/c865ffd0/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 18:30:44 +0100 > From: Ana Teixeira Pinto <a.n.a.t.e.i.x.e.i.r.a.p.i.n....@gmail.com> > To: Ted Byfield <tedbyfi...@gmail.com> > Cc: nettim...@kein.org > Subject: Re: <nettime> CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: > left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques > Message-ID: > <CAJDk3AKV7EG0ujp=KLLZ2eAtHihR-j2xO+w08= > f7-ppjprw...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > What is "pro-vax imperialism"? To what concrete, real, policy does this > term apply? It seems to suggest that vaccines are being foisted on the > global south when the actual problem is hoarding... > > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 6:06 PM Ted Byfield <tedbyfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > This kind of 'concern trolling'?esque appropriation of leftish discourse > > in the service of rightish agendas is becoming pervasive in the US at > least > > ? and elsewhere, I'm sure, albeit with less detail. > > > > As with most of these discursive tendencies it's first and foremost > > impersonal, which can make it hard to counter without opening oneself up > to > > charges of relying on ad hominem. I think that helps to account for its > > rise as a rhetorical strategy: it 'works' mainly because it lays basis > for > > a scripted form of pseudo-argument ? pious platitudes about science, > > openness, debate, democracy, whatever. But, as I think you suggest, > > Florian, it would be a serious mistake to see it as merely rhetorical: it > > has concrete consequences. > > > > It might be useful to think of this turn in terms of rightist > > 'culture-jamming,' 'overidentification,' and related ideas. > > > > Cheers, > > Ted > > > > On 20 Jan 2022, at 7:00, Florian Cramer wrote: > > > > >> - Government propaganda and censorship around lockdown and vaccination > > >> > > > [...] > > > > > >> - 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) > > >> > > > [...] > > > > > >> - Mandatory vaccine rollouts as assaults to the feminist appeal to > > bodily > > >> autonomy > > >> > > > [...] > > > > > >> - Ethical considerations regarding mass experimentation, moral shaming > > and > > >> lateral citizen surveillance > > >> > > > [...] > > > > > >> - 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. > > # 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: > https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/BLL_C1WZKqhM3NlQJtLV6TF?domain=mx.kein.org > <http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l> > > # archive: > https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/S6fMC2xZLrcp1zgD5u1H5ot?domain=nettime.org > <http://www.nettime.org> contact: nett...@kein.org > > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mx.kein.org/pipermail/nettime-l/attachments/20220120/16f944de/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 08:53:02 +0000 > From: "Hoofd, I.M. (Ingrid)" <i.m.ho...@uu.nl> > To: Ana Teixeira Pinto <a.n.a.t.e.i.x.e.i.r.a.p.i.n....@gmail.com>, > Ted Byfield <tedbyfi...@gmail.com> > Cc: "nettim...@kein.org" <nettim...@kein.org> > Subject: Re: <nettime> CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: > left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques > Message-ID: > < > am4pr05mb3506d80afc7e9f0b04e3a40fb8...@am4pr05mb3506.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi Ana, absolutely, the problem is one of past and present power > imbalances. I am referring to the subordination in the former colonies of > indigenous populations through vaccine mandates and ?western modern > medicine? more generally. See for instance the interesting work of Anke > Scherer, who spoke at the ?Epidemics and Othering? symposium a few months > ago: > https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/7k8UC5QZOxCZEL2rktxzXWa?domain=epidemicsandothering.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de > <https://epidemicsandothering.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Epidemics-and-Othering-Symposium-Programm-final.pdf> > . > > Cheers, Ingrid. > > From: nettime-l-boun...@mail.kein.org <nettime-l-boun...@mail.kein.org> > On Behalf Of Ana Teixeira Pinto > Sent: Thursday, 20 January 2022 18:31 > To: Ted Byfield <tedbyfi...@gmail.com> > Cc: nettim...@kein.org > Subject: Re: <nettime> CfP: Critical reflections on pandemic politics: > left-wing, feminist and anti-racist critiques > > What is "pro-vax imperialism"? To what concrete, real, policy does this > term apply? It seems to suggest that vaccines are being foisted on the > global south when the actual problem is hoarding... > > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 6:06 PM Ted Byfield <tedbyfi...@gmail.com<mailto: > tedbyfi...@gmail.com>> wrote: > This kind of 'concern trolling'?esque appropriation of leftish discourse > in the service of rightish agendas is becoming pervasive in the US at least > ? and elsewhere, I'm sure, albeit with less detail. > > As with most of these discursive tendencies it's first and foremost > impersonal, which can make it hard to counter without opening oneself up to > charges of relying on ad hominem. I think that helps to account for its > rise as a rhetorical strategy: it 'works' mainly because it lays basis for > a scripted form of pseudo-argument ? pious platitudes about science, > openness, debate, democracy, whatever. But, as I think you suggest, > Florian, it would be a serious mistake to see it as merely rhetorical: it > has concrete consequences. > > It might be useful to think of this turn in terms of rightist > 'culture-jamming,' 'overidentification,' and related ideas. > > Cheers, > Ted > > On 20 Jan 2022, at 7:00, Florian Cramer wrote: > > >> - Government propaganda and censorship around lockdown and vaccination > >> > > [...] > > > >> - 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) > >> > > [...] > > > >> - Mandatory vaccine rollouts as assaults to the feminist appeal to > bodily > >> autonomy > >> > > [...] > > > >> - Ethical considerations regarding mass experimentation, moral shaming > and > >> lateral citizen surveillance > >> > > [...] > > > >> - 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. 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