[csaa-forum] CFP Biopolitics, biopower and visual media

[Randell-Moon, Holly]

Dear CSAA Colleagues,


Apologies for cross-posting.


A few contributors have withdrawn from a special issue collection on 'Biopolitics, biopower and visual media' and we are seeking 2 further contributions.


Here is an outline of the collection:


Theories of biopolitics and biopower in the work of Foucault, Agamben, Esposito, Hardt and Negri and others have been widely discussed in recent years as constituting one of the key paradigms for understanding visual media. This collection of essays addresses the role of visual media as technologies of population management and the ways that visual media produce effects of immunity from state violence and the destruction of ‘other’ populations. While some scholars have explored the ways that media affect and user vulnerability make possible new forms of political connectivity and participation, the essays in this issue ask: how do media classify some populations as worthy of life and others as precarious or disposable? Theories of biopower and biopolitics challenge us to think about the ways that visual media record, archive, and analyze biological life; enmesh social existence in information networks and harvest it as data; and define human subjects in terms of racial and species hierarchies. The transmedial turn in media and communication studies has also shown how DIY technologies that encourage media production and prosumption can be utilised by communities that have been minoritised by state power to contest, or alternatively become complicit in, forms of violence and exclusion.  These essays show how the politics of self-identification, self-representation, and self-preservation through media can be usefully strengthened by attention to the biopolitics of visual surveillance, genetic information, and new media economies.


If you would like to contribute or have any questions or queries, please get in touch.


Kind regards,

Holly.



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