Kritische Kollektivität im Netz: Anonymous, Facebook und die Kraft der Affizierung in der Kontrollgesellschaft

Gilles Deleuze predicted it as early as in 1991: Each type of society its own machines, each control society its own computers. Their cybernetic logics have merged with new, bio-political forms of capitalism. The result is Facebook, the platform that lets its users evaluate and compare themselves to others. Yet what can undermine the dispositive of commodification and control? What may be considered subversive if submission is voluntary and theory no longer knows an intentional subject? Carolin Wiedemann shows to what extent an internet phenomenon like "Anonymous" can be conclusive and which new options of criticism and collectivity follow from that.