COVID-19阴谋言论和其他原始幻想

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C. Kelly
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纪录片《星球封锁》声称,新冠肺炎大流行是金融资本家、硅谷和制药行业制造的,目的是将人口植入微芯片,巩固全球财富,奴役人口。这部电影的视频在社交网络和媒体上获得了数千万的点击量,成为新冠肺炎虚假信息的主要来源。本文认为,COVID-19奴役幻想满足了白人保守派对种族流离失所的担忧,这种担忧是由即将到来的人口变化和在大流行的早期阶段反种族主义活动的日益明显所造成的。我认为,《禁闭星球》对所谓“现代奴隶制”的关注重现了一个国家的原始场景,以在对白人统治地位的认知减弱时恢复白人权力:一种对自由主体起源的幻想,忽略了该主体与奴隶制和反黑人的关系。通过将奴隶制想象成对白人自我的未来威胁,而不是反黑人社会的结构性组织,COVID-19阴谋言论促进了对白人至上主义结构性遗产的否认。
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COVID-19 conspiracy rhetoric and other primal fantasies
ABSTRACT Planet Lockdown, a documentary film, claims that the COVID-19 pandemic was manufactured by finance capitalists, Silicon Valley, and the pharmaceutical industry to microchip the population, consolidate global wealth, and enslave the population. Viral videos from the film have received tens of millions of engagements throughout social networks and media, constituting a major source of COVID-19 disinformation. This article argues that COVID-19 enslavement fantasies consummate white conservative fears of racial displacement, brought on by an impending demographic shift and greater visibility of antiracist activism throughout the early stages of the pandemic. I argue that Planet Lockdown’s preoccupation with so-called “modern slavery” restages a national primal scene to resecure white power as perceptions of its dominance wanes: a fantasy of the origins of the liberal subject that omits that subject’s relationship to slavery and anti-Blackness. By imagining slavery as a future threat to white selfhood rather than the structural organization of a society underwritten by anti-Blackness, COVID-19 conspiracy rhetoric facilitates a disavowal of the structural legacy of white supremacy.
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发文量
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期刊介绍: The Quarterly Journal of Speech (QJS) publishes articles and book reviews of interest to those who take a rhetorical perspective on the texts, discourses, and cultural practices by which public beliefs and identities are constituted, empowered, and enacted. Rhetorical scholarship now cuts across many different intellectual, disciplinary, and political vectors, and QJS seeks to honor and address the interanimating effects of such differences. No single project, whether modern or postmodern in its orientation, or local, national, or global in its scope, can suffice as the sole locus of rhetorical practice, knowledge and understanding.
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