Return to normality!? Reclaim conspiracy!

A moment to thicken the plot and conspire together against the techno-capitalist management of the pandemics (and of life in general)

23/01/2022 @ LAG 16h [this discussion was cancelled/forked]

Normality presses on us, framing how things are and how they should be, what is possible and what is inevitable. Normality never left, the possibilities of an event were quickly reconfigured towards a normal-with-pandemic, the intensification of the technological management of every-day life, by state and by corporations. It means the roads filled with delivery bikes, it means online everything, and living with brand new forms of tracing ( surprise! the german police has already used the data from a covid tracing app for police work! who could have thought!).

Thousands of people have been taking the streets of cities all over the world with a mix of reasons and aims. Generalized dissent and distrust with governments met right-wing opportunism and different forms of refusal of scientific truth, and was conveniently lumped up by mainstream media and leftists alike as a generic anti-vax extreme-right response.

The majority of people, even in radical political circles, have chosen to stick to the "safe side", avoiding the risk of getting dirty with situations critical of pandemic protocols but poisoned by the presence of the extreme right and of ultra-liberal types. The safe side is also the side of governmental advice, of techno-capitalist interests, of 'society’ and qr-codes. It is not much that suddenly people got convinced that state and capitalist powers are good and helpful, it seems rather that they got sure that all those resisting and fighting nowadays are enemies, or deserving debunking rather than consideration, let alone solidarity or engagement.

The uneasiness and confusion of the situation seems to comfort most of us in waiting out things to make their course - that is, because there doesn't seem to be any clear course of action, no-action has become the preferred course of action. The moment of opening that could be felt a year and half ago, with the suspension of at least some of the flows that govern everyday life, has already almost fully faded away. What is left for most, is a mixture of hopelessness, exhaustion and nihilism.

Time to meet, discuss and conspire together, to support each other and find ways forward through these confusing times, cultivating the possibilities of the moment rather than standing-by watching our anticipations confirmed in the constant reinstatement of normality. Exactly because there doesn't seem to be any clear course of action, it's time to experiment and contaminate each other with renewed urgencies. Bring questions, they will animate our conspiring.

Warning: This is a discussion about the whole covid pandemonium: virus, vaccines, qr-codes, conspiracy, polarized opinions and paralyzed critique. Because most social spaces have been having their doors closed for way too long, because you most likely have been hanging out with people who think like you, because critical thinking has become irresponsible, and because our politics of contamination has to deal with the total governance of contamination, we will likely leave more confused than before.