A nonlinear archive of writing, protest, refusal, and recursive theorization.
From the margins of early internet feminism to infrastructural critique.
URL: https://redlightpolitics.info/
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Initial node of unaffiliated feminist theorization. Wrote from the outer peripheries of institutional legibility, before "platform" became a framework. Focused on race, gender, EU austerity, migration, and epistemic marginality, all from the position of a then–precarious migrant.
URL: http://tigerbeatdown.com/
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Permanent contributor at one of the most widely read feminist blogs of its time. A key site for theoretical insurgency prior to academic legitimization.
Notable text: My feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit (2011) — still hosted on-site, now an internet relic.
Cited a decade later in The Guardian (2021), in the context of March 4 Justice mobilizations.
Further Reading: Vox profile on quote appropriation (2016). Documents the afterlife of the phrase as commodified mantra. The article traces how Dzodan’s critique of racialized capitalism was reduced to a meme, stripped of context, and monetized across internet platforms without compensation or attribution. A key moment in the genealogy of affective extraction and epistemic dispossession.
URL: Wayback Sample 1 and Wayback Sample 2
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Semi-regular contributor to xoJane, another one of the most widely read feminist platforms of the early 2010s. At its peak, xoJane helped define the affective aesthetics of digital feminism, prior to the rise of influencer discourse or institutional
capture. Flavia’s essays offered early interventions into geopolitical misogyny (e.g., Dominique Strauss-Kahn), white supremacist fan cultures (e.g. Anders Breivik), and the spectacle of cruelty as mediated through internet platforms. These pieces, often overlooked due to the ephemerality of para-platform spaces, constitute a formative stratum in the genealogy of her thought. They prefigure core concerns later crystallized in her recursive theory of algorithmic governance, vital austerity, and racialized network aesthetics. Now preserved only via the Wayback Machine, this writing remains a critical site of affective and epistemic experimentation.
URL: https://medium.com/@flaviadzodan
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Writings during the post-platform disillusionment phase. A return to theorization in the wake of earlier burnout, with deep dives into the politics of big data, algorithms, affect, biopower, and European fascism.
Key text: Our collective unconscious of violence on networks and discipline (2017 keynote at University of Amsterdam) — an early prefiguration of networked necropolitics and affective governance.
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This essay marks a key transition from affective diagnostics to deep infrastructural critique. It examines how colonial epistemologies persist in algorithmic architectures, through classification regimes, taxonomical inheritance, and predictive logic. The piece prefigures vital strands of Affective Logistics and anchors the genealogical throughline that runs from early para-platform work to the current recursive infrastructure.
URL: https://theresearchpapers.org/archive/
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Epistemic reliquary and holding bay for essays, talks, and experimental formats. Marked a shift toward recursive theory, mourning-as-method, and infrastructural critique outside institutional enclosures.
URL: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/flavia-dzodan
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Published a series of early global op-eds addressing IMF governance, queer legal reform in Argentina, and postcolonial critiques of British imperial nostalgia. The Guardian phase marks a transitional moment between para-platform insurgency and institutional proximity. The 2011 critique of IMF logics, framed through austerity’s affective violence, was part of a recursive analysis that appeared concurrently across xoJane, Global Comment, and Tiger Beatdown. Together, these texts constitute a distributed archive of refusal, prefiguring later critiques of vital austerity and algorithmic governance formalized in Affective Logistics. The author page anchors these interventions as a coherent epistemic body.
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A critique of Dutch liberalism’s racialized limits, exposing how structural whiteness frames solidarity as conditional. Published during the height of global post-Trump discourse, the piece refuses both nationalist innocence and exportable feminism. It anticipates key strands of Affective Logistics, especially the politics of emotional credibility, algorithmic whiteness, and the metrics of “tolerance” as governance.
URL: https://globalcomment.com/author/flaviad/
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Prolific contributions during the early 2010s, covering austerity, media protest, transnational feminist critique, and the racialized infrastructures of EU governance. This phase marked the sharpening of my political diagnostics through realtime commentary on the Eurozone crisis, Latin American feminist statecraft, and the transatlantic affective economies of empire. Often overlooked, these pieces now read as prescient groundwork for later recursive theorization.
Handle: @redlightvoices
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Experimental stage for platform literacy and theory in practice.
Archival note: Account is dormant but not deleted. Maintained as a record of intellectual labor under affective duress.
Peak reach: ~30,000 followers
Function: Spectral site of intervention, amplification, and exhaustion.