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William S. Burroughs: "The Limits of Control" and Its Influence on Deleuze

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The History of Mind Control

The idea of control in a way presupposes freedom as itself its own limits, because whilst control, you can control people with addictions. As long as we've predetermined the path in advance, or even your ability to think or desire them, that still has to learn from the history of the control over bodies and minds. And this is where Boris, I guess, is a bit more conspiratorial because he's thinking about mind control in his laws of he's thinking up mind control. We're not thinking of mind control. He's thinking about assassinating one of the Kennedys. The Mayan cultures had their own literati and could therefore control those who could not read. But

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