The conception of a control mechanism, giving the position of any element within an open environment at any given instant (whether animal in a reserve or human in a corporation, as with an electronic collar), is not necessarily one of science fiction. Felix Guattari has imagined a city where one would be able to leave one’s apartment, one’s street, one’s neighborhood, thanks to one’s (dividual) electronic card that raises a given barrier; but the card could just as easily be rejected on a given day or between certain hours; what counts is not the barrier but the computer that tracks each person’s position—licit or illicit—and effects a universal modulation.
Title: Postscript on the Societies of Control Author: Gilles Deleuze Topics: authoritarianism, capitalism, control, Deleuze, Foucault, France, post-anarchism, society Date: May, 1990 Source: www.jstor.org
The conception of a control mechanism, giving the position of any element
within an open environment at any given instant (whether animal in a reserve or human in a corporation, as with an electronic collar), is not
necessarily one of science fiction. Felix Guattari has imagined a city where one would be able to leave one’s apartment, one’s street, one’s
neighborhood, thanks to one’s (dividual) electronic card that raises a
given barrier; but the card could just as easily be rejected on a given day or between certain hours; what counts is not the barrier but the computer
that tracks each person’s position—licit or illicit—and effects a
universal modulation.
Title: Postscript on the Societies of Control
Author: Gilles Deleuze
Topics: authoritarianism, capitalism, control, Deleuze, Foucault, France,
post-anarchism, society
Date: May, 1990
Source: www.jstor.org