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Episode: Feminism, anti-feminism and affective economies of rage
Description: Contributor(s): Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser | In this event Sarah Banet-Weiser will theorize âmirror worldsâ as an apt metaphor for the contemporary political and cultural feminist landscape.
The concept of mirror worlds captures the ways in which reactionary digital politics seeks to mimic feminist politics - but also how it distorts and distracts, with the aim of confusing, splintering and weakening feminism. Within digital media culture in recent years, we have seen the rise of diverse reactionary formations which mirror feminist language, concepts and analyses, marshalling them for anti-feminist ends; these include popular misogynists, âmanfluencersâ, and âred-pilledâ manosphere groups such as incels, pick...