[JFKI-News] Control Societies I: Media, Culture, Technology]

["Abteilung Kultur" <culture@jfki.fu-berlin.de>]

Dear colleagues and friends,

together with Florian Cord of the TU Dresden I serve as the editor of two
consecutive special issues of the open-access journal "Coils of the
Serpent" dedicated to Gilles Deleuze’s essay "Postscript on Control
Societies," which was first published in 1990. The first one of the two
issues (entitled "Control Societies I: Media, Culture, Technology") has
now been released and can be accessed on the journal’s website:
https://coilsoftheserpent.org/

The articles collected here take Deleuze's late essay as a starting point
and address subjects as diverse as control and cybernetics, media regimes
and technology, racializing and gendering assemblages, digital capitalism
and the digital image, and the notion of 'dividuality.' The contributors
are as follows: Ian Buchanan, Florian Cord, Andrew Culp, Shane Denson,
Sabine Hark, Bernd Herzogenrath, Elisa Linseisen, Michaela Ott, Dominic
Pettman, Tanja Prokić, Gerald Raunig, Christina Rogers, David Savat, Simon
Schleusener, Jens Schröter, and Daniela Voss.

The other half of the essays will appear shortly under the title "Control
Societies II: Philosophy, Politics, Economy."

Kind regards,
Simon Schleusener


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