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Next Wednesday June 12th I will be giving an online lunchtime lecture (12:30-2pm) for the Centre for Education and Social Justice at Lancaster University. This is based on a chapter from my forthcoming book Personal Business: sexual violence in racial capitalism, which will be out next year from Manchester University Press. Title, abstract and Zoom details below � all welcome! Feel free to share onwards.

This paper explores online violence against women, a phenomenon usually situated in a cultural ‘backlash� frame. It contextualises this violence within a political economy of late (or ‘platform�) capitalism that draws on arguments that we are moving into a neo- or techno-feudal age. I engage Siapera’s understanding of digital violence as a strategy of enclosure that excludes women from technological spaces, arguing that it also enacts a fantasised neofeudal masculinity: this requires the humiliation and abjection of women, but ultimately vents a frustrated desire for power. Crucially, this ressentiment is one side of the neofeudal bargain in which some are offered impunity to perpetrate violence on others, as part of interactions between cyborgian serfs that ultimately serve to generate value for the platforms owned by neofeudalism’s petty kings.

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Meeting ID: 830 1774 9983
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