Acid Horizon Gilles Deleuze's "Postscript on Societies of Control"
Dec 13, 2020
The podcast discusses Gilles Deleuze's essay on societies of control, exploring the transition from disciplinary society to control society. They analyze the concept of control, machine-making enslavement, and the hyper-divisionalization of individuals. The hosts examine the impact of control mechanisms on subjectivity and discuss the potential of decentralized modularity. They also highlight the importance of debt in societies of control and its role in shaping society and political economy.
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From Discipline to Control
- Deleuze builds upon Foucault's concept of disciplinary societies.
- He introduces the "society of control," where control is exercised in open, continuous systems rather than enclosed spaces.
Prescience of Deleuze
- Deleuze's essay, written in 1991, is remarkably prescient in its analysis of contemporary society.
- It accurately describes the role of technology, data, and the internet in shaping our lives and self-understanding.
Modulation vs. Molding
- Control societies modulate individuals, treating them as adaptable entities.
- This contrasts with disciplinary societies, which mold individuals into fixed identities.