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

[hans christian voigt <sozwiss@gmail.com>]

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.


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> 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
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> - 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)
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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
> [...]
> - Teleological and theological narratives of science as salvation (eg. via vaccinations)
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> 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.
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> You should invite Dutch experts Willem Engel and Thierry Baudet as keynote speakers.
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> -F
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