- 1. POSTSCRIPT ON THE SOCIETIES OF CONTROL By Gilles
Deleuze
2. HISTORICAL: Disciplinary societies "they initiate the
organizations of vast spaces of enclosure. The individual never
ceases passing from one closed environment to another, each having
its own laws: first, the family; then the school ( "you are no
longer in your family" ); then the barracks ("you are no longer in
school"); then the factory; from time to time the hospital;
possibly the prison, the preeminent instance of the enclosed
environment. (1%) Prototypes Michel Foucault Explains Disciplinary
Societies in 9min 4:58 6:40 3. HISTORICAL: Societies of control:
process of replacing disciplinary societies "societies of
sovereignty, the goal and functions of which were something quiet
different (to tax rather than to organize production, to rule on
death rather than life); the transition took place over time...the
disciplines underwent a crisis to benefit of new forces that were
gradually instituted and which accelerated after WWII (1%) to
reform schools, to reform industries, hospitals, the armed forces,
prisons. But everyone knows that these institutions are finished,
whatever the length of their expiration periods. It's only(1%) 4.
but the corporation constantly presents the brashest rivalry as a
healthy form of emulation(mimicing), an excellent motivational
force that opposes individuals against one another and runs through
each, dividing each within (3%) Amy Allen Marion Young's Conception
of Power The corporate and legal structures and procedures that
give some persons the power to make decisions about investment,
production, marketing, interest rates, and wages that affect
millions of other people. (p.158) LOGIC: Societies of Control Jon
Stewart Speaks Up Against Controlled Media 2:30 3:53 5. PROGRAM:
"whether animal in a reserve or human in a corporation, as with an
electric collar" "...what counts is not the barrier but the
computer that tracks each person's position -- licit or illicit --
and effects a universal modulation. (5%) Computer can effect
modulation structure of humans "many young people strangely boast
of being 'motivated'; they re-request apprenticeships and permanent
training. It's up to them to discover what they're being made to
serve, just as their elders discovered, not without difficulty, the
telos of their discipline. (5%) 6. THE EYE OF POWER By Michel
Foucault "[The hospital is] ensuring a surveillance which would be
both global and individualizing while at the same time carefully
separating the individuals under observation. (7%) A conversation
with Jean-Pierre Barou and Michelle Perrot 7. Bentham's device: the
'Panopticon' "the principle of the dungeon is reversed; daylight
and the overseer's gaze capture the inmate more effectively than
darkness, which afforded after all a sort of protection. (7%)
"there was an observation point which served as a focus to exercise
power and, simultaneously, for the registration of knowledge. (8%)
Confidence meets dominance feeling 8. Foucault: Power by Virtue
"This reign of 'opinion'...represents a mode of operation through
which power will be exercised by virtue of the mere fact of things
being known and people seen in a sort of immediate, collective and
anonymous gaze. (12%) Perrot: "Here we are at the heart of the
preoccupations of the Revolution: preventing people from
wrong-doing, taking away their wish to commit wrong. (13%) 9.
Perrot: power as Monarchical power "there is a chief inspector who
watches over the prisoners from the central tower; but he watches
his subordinates as well, the personnel in the hierarchy. This
chief inspector has little faith in his overseers. (14%) Lack of
Internet control NSA and Snowden 10. Foucault: "The perfect form of
surveillance consists in a summation of malveillance (15%) To watch
in the reason of safety "the tendency of Bentham's thought is
archaic in the importance it gives to the gaze; but it is very
modern in general importance is assigns to technique of power (17%)
11. Discussion Questions Do you think the monarchical type of
surveillance could be considered part of a controlled society, even
though prison is considered part of a disciplinary society? What
were your reactions to the Jon Stewart clip of controlled media?
Did it clearly depict what Deleuze considers a controlled society?
What would be an example of it?
