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Illegal migrants who evade detection, creators of value in insecure and precarious working conditions and those who refuse the constraints of sexual and biomedical classifications: these are the people who manage to subvert power and to craft unexpected sociabilities and experiences. Escape Routes shows how people can escape control and create social change by becoming imperceptible to the political system of Global North Atlantic societies. 'A profound and brilliant examination of the power of exodus to create radical interventions in perhaps the three most important and contested fields of society today: life, migration and precarious labour. It is in these fields that the present and future of multitude is at stake. Escape Routes is a toolbox in the hands of multitude.'Antonio Negri, author of Insurgencies and co-author of Empire and Multitude

Illegal migrants who evade detection, creators of value in insecure and precarious working conditions and those who refuse the constraints of sexual and biomedical classifications: these are the people who manage to subvert power and to craft unexpected sociabilities and experiences. Escape Routes shows how people can escape control and create social change by becoming imperceptible to the political system of Global North Atlantic societies. 'A profound and brilliant examination of the power of exodus to create radical interventions in perhaps the three most important and contested fields of society today: life, migration and precarious labour. It is in these fields that the present and future of multitude is at stake. Escape Routes is a toolbox in the hands of multitude.'Antonio Negri, author of Insurgencies and co-author of Empire and Multitude

Illegal migrants who evade detection, creators of value in insecure and precarious working conditions and those who refuse the constraints of sexual and biomedical classifications: these are the people who manage to subvert power and to craft unexpected sociabilities and experiences. Escape Routes shows how people can escape control and create social change by becoming imperceptible to the political system of Global North Atlantic societies. ''A profound and brilliant examination of the power of exodus to create radical interventions in perhaps the three most important and contested fields of society today: life, migration and precarious labour. It is in these fields that the present and future of multitude is at stake. Escape Routes is a toolbox in the hands of multitude.''Antonio Negri, author of Insurgencies and co-author of Empire and Multitude

Im Anschluss an Michel Foucault formierte sich eine Debatte um den Begriff der Biopolitik, die diesen als Einsatz einer kritischen "Analytik der Gegenwart" konzipiert, um Spiele der Macht zu untersuchen. Der vorliegende Band bietet das keineswegs homogene Bild der gegenwärtigen Diskussion, die sich mit Foucault und über diesen hinausweisend einer produktiv gewendete „Biopolitik von unten“ verpflichtet sieht. Biopolitische Produktion bezeichnet vor diesem Hintergrund das Terrain der Kämpfe um Subjektivität, um die Arten und Weisen der Verbindung zwischen Lebensführung, Konsum, Sexualität, politischer Repräsentation und Produktionsweise. Diese Forschungsprogrammatik zielt darauf, das Produktive, Mobile und Überschüssige im Herzen der Biopolitik und im Vakuum von Kontrolle, Regulierung und (Selbst-)Regierung auszuloten.

Im Anschluss an Michel Foucault formierte sich eine Debatte um den Begriff der Biopolitik, die diesen als Einsatz einer kritischen "Analytik der Gegenwart" konzipiert, um Spiele der Macht zu untersuchen. Der vorliegende Band bietet das keineswegs homogene Bild der gegenwärtigen Diskussion, die sich mit Foucault und über diesen hinausweisend einer produktiv gewendete „Biopolitik von unten“ verpflichtet sieht. Biopolitische Produktion bezeichnet vor diesem Hintergrund das Terrain der Kämpfe um Subjektivität, um die Arten und Weisen der Verbindung zwischen Lebensführung, Konsum, Sexualität, politischer Repräsentation und Produktionsweise. Diese Forschungsprogrammatik zielt darauf, das Produktive, Mobile und Überschüssige im Herzen der Biopolitik und im Vakuum von Kontrolle, Regulierung und (Selbst-)Regierung auszuloten.

Since 2010 we have witnessed new ways of assembling, which have made the word »democracy« sound important again. These practices may not have led to the political changes we had hoped for. Nevertheless, we are convinced of their importance. This book wants to acknowledge them as a starting point for a new art of being many: The »many« invoke new concepts of collectivity by renegotiating their modes of participation and (self-)presentation and by rewriting rhetorical, choreographical, and material scripts of assembling. This volume is inspired and informed by the square-occupations and neighborhood assemblies of the »real democracy« movements as well as by recent explorations of the assembly form in performance art and participatory theatre.