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Report finds women with disabilities in the European Union face poverty, unemployment, eugenics

Report finds women with disabilities in the European Union face poverty, unemployment, eugenics

This week the European Parliament released a report about Discrimination and access to employment for female workers with disabilities. The…
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Flavia Dzodan
From gut feeling to policy: the lifecycle of hate

From gut feeling to policy: the lifecycle of hate

In the beginning there was hate
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Flavia Dzodan
Sentimentality and the building blocks of bigotry

Sentimentality and the building blocks of bigotry

Last week Dutch TV regaled us with a humanising segment about Geert Wilders’ cats. In this segment, journalist Eva Jinek asks pressing…
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Flavia Dzodan
Our collective unconscious of violence: on networks and discipline

Our collective unconscious of violence: on networks and discipline

This is the text of the talk I gave at the “Public Lives/Private Platform: The Politics of Twitter” Symposium at the University of…
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Flavia Dzodan
Meet the Dutch alt-right ideologue that won two seats in parliament

Meet the Dutch alt-right ideologue that won two seats in parliament

The alt-right (also known as, you know, nazis) now hold two seats in Dutch parliament. Thierry Baudet and his Forum for Democracy (Forum…
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Sander Philipse
Alt-Feminism and the white nationalist women who love it

Alt-Feminism and the white nationalist women who love it

A gathering and conference of European and American white nationalists took place in Sweden at the end of February. This conference didn’t…
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Flavia Dzodan
Big Data and the ethics of community surveillance

Big Data and the ethics of community surveillance

In the previous essay of this ongoing series about Big Data, I discussed how the emotional states of the dominant culture are usually…
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Flavia Dzodan
Facts to counteract the normalization of neo-nazis

Facts to counteract the normalization of neo-nazis

This past weekend, Richard Spencer was punched while giving an interview to an Australian outlet. Now certain media is wondering whether…
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Flavia Dzodan
When the personal is necropolitical: on Inauguration Day and alliances of hate

When the personal is necropolitical: on Inauguration Day and alliances of hate

Today marks what I believe will be remembered as a new era. We tend to think of historical eras as having neat demarcations, limits we can…
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Flavia Dzodan
When white fears become Big Data: racist emotions and the populists who love them

When white fears become Big Data: racist emotions and the populists who love them

At the end of last year I started exploring issues surrounding Big Data from a political standpoint. The first essay summarized the history…
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Flavia Dzodan
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