Virtual Suicide as Decisive Political Act
Book chapter
Cox, G. (2012). Virtual Suicide as Decisive Political Act. in: Sützl, W. and Hug, T. (ed.) Activist Media and Biopolitics Innsbruck University of Innsbruck Press. pp. 105-105
Authors | Cox, G. |
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Editors | Sützl, W. and Hug, T. |
Abstract | The reappraisal of interventionist responses is necessarily ongoing, not least in the context of how social media have changed the face of the political process and the ways in which subjectivity is captured. The tactics of dissent have changed too. For instance, Seppukoo (2009), a recent hack of Facebook by Les Liens Invisibles, provided an example where users were able to commit virtual suicide in a ritualistic removal of their virtual identity. Virtual suicide stands as the stubborn refusal to operate under intolerable conditions of service and affirms the possibility of creative autonomy over work and life. Also published in Polish in the book Mindware (ISBN 9788363145040) |
Page range | 105-105 |
Year | 2012 |
Book title | Activist Media and Biopolitics |
Publisher | University of Innsbruck Press |
Place of publication | Innsbruck |
ISBN | 978-3-902811-04-2 |
Publication dates | |
01 Jan 2012 | |
Online | 01 Jan 2012 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 01 Jan 2012 |
Deposited | 19 Feb 2020 |
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