https://artes.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/promotion/qualifikation/artes-forum/forum-2025

I am part of a recently formed, small, and extra-institutional group of loosely connected researchers based in Germany attempting to describe what we’ve begun to call the anti-antisemitism dispositif. Our first impulse was to map its elements and articulations. Such a mapping could, for example, visually reconstruct Hanno Hauenstein’s reporting from September 2024 on an exclusive story by the Springer-owned Bild Zeitung on Hamas sabotaging ceasefire negotiations: a desinformation campaign that can be traced back to Israeli premier Benjamin Netanjahu’s office, wrote Hauenstein, while also pointing out that Axel Springer SE owns Israel’s largest classified ads online platform Yad2 on which property is offered for sale in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories. Springer, in other words, is making money by promoting the ongoing expropriation, expulsion and destruction of Palestinian people. 
But mappings and their theories of networks tend to feed on conspiratorial plot mechanics. Considering how conspirational constructions are a fundamental component of antisemitism as practice of meaning making and how they also define more broadly many elements in our current moment of fascizisation, we might be invested in constructing different forms of representation – reflexive mappings marked by antifascist affordances.