Ebook: Activist Media and Biopolitics:Critical Media Interventions in the Age of Biopower

After the tactical media web 2.0 lost its importance, many media activist projects were newly positioned: in the context of biopolitics they challenge the hegemony of biopower. This volume contains theoretical and empirical contributions from a conference that was held in Innsbruck Media Studies in 2010 on media activism and biopolitics. Theorists and activists describe and analyze media, with the goal of making opposition to the regime of biopower possible. The control of mobility and visibility, the biopolitics of death, the generation of virtual entities and chimeras, and the biopolitical production are areas in which activists have intervened and gave rise to a theory of discourse. With contributions from Pau Alsina, Apprich Clemens, Joshua Atkinson, VL Suzanne Berg, Geoff Cox, Alessandro Delfanti, Eddie Glenn, Carolyn Guertin, Cliff Hammett, Valerie Hartouni, Theo Hug, Jan Jagodzinski, Alexandra Jonsson, Andreas Oberprantacher, Etienne Pelaprat, Raquel Rennó, Claudia Black and Roy Wagner.