Flavia Dzodan — This Platform Is Quiet, But the Reliquary Is NotMy name is Flavia Dzodan, and this platform has been dormant for some time. What remains here are fragments and archival sediment from an…May 4May 4
Published inThis Political WomanTowards a post Trump world: Mainstreaming Men’s Rights ActivistsInternational media observes, dissects and discusses every move that Donald Trump makes. His every Tweet, no matter how banal, misinformed…Mar 1, 2018A response icon1Mar 1, 2018A response icon1
Published inThis Political WomanThe possibilities of radical consentThis is a slightly edited version of a talk I gave last summer at Progress Bar in Amsterdam.Oct 26, 2017A response icon1Oct 26, 2017A response icon1
Published inThis Political WomanThe magnanimous middle ground and maintaining colonial orderMainstream media is currently riding high on the trend of equating anti fascism to neo nazism. There is a plethora of “Both side”…Sep 5, 2017A response icon1Sep 5, 2017A response icon1
Published inThis Political WomanReport finds women with disabilities in the European Union face poverty, unemployment, eugenicsThis week the European Parliament released a report about Discrimination and access to employment for female workers with disabilities. The…Aug 11, 2017A response icon3Aug 11, 2017A response icon3
Published inThis Political WomanFrom gut feeling to policy: the lifecycle of hateIn the beginning there was hateAug 2, 2017Aug 2, 2017
Published inThis Political WomanSentimentality and the building blocks of bigotryLast week Dutch TV regaled us with a humanising segment about Geert Wilders’ cats. In this segment, journalist Eva Jinek asks pressing…Jul 26, 2017A response icon3Jul 26, 2017A response icon3
Published inThis Political WomanOur collective unconscious of violence: on networks and disciplineThis is the text of the talk I gave at the “Public Lives/Private Platform: The Politics of Twitter” Symposium at the University of…May 25, 2017A response icon1May 25, 2017A response icon1
Published inThis Political WomanAlt-Feminism and the white nationalist women who love itA gathering and conference of European and American white nationalists took place in Sweden at the end of February. This conference didn’t…Mar 7, 2017A response icon15Mar 7, 2017A response icon15
Published inThis Political WomanBig Data and the ethics of community surveillanceIn the previous essay of this ongoing series about Big Data, I discussed how the emotional states of the dominant culture are usually…Feb 3, 2017A response icon1Feb 3, 2017A response icon1