[Commlist] CFP Biopolitics, biopower and visual media

A few contributors have withdrawn from a special issue collection on 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 with Randell-Moon, Holly <(hrandell-moon /at/ csu.edu.au)>

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