Philosophy
Postscript on the Societies of Control
CevvelaPhilosophy
Postscript on the Societies of Control
Gilles Deleuze · Norgunk Yayıncılık · 1990
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A short but devastating essay arguing that the “disciplinary society” Foucault described through prisons and factories is over, replaced by a more flexible yet more insidious “society of control” that monitors us at every moment through passwords, credit cards, lifelong training and digital networks.
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“Disciplinary societies relied on enclosed spaces; societies of control rely on open networks.”
“Man is no longer man enclosed, but man in debt.”
“Corporations demand from you not only your labor but your soul and your loyalty.”
“Knowing you are constantly watched turns obedience into a reflex.”
“The moment we believe we are free is the moment we are most perfectly controlled.”
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In just a few pages, Deleuze took an X-ray of today. It is the philosophy of our digital servitude. They no longer need to keep us behind closed walls; we carry the control devices — our phones — in our own hands, and we tighten our own shackles with our own debts. Cevvela’s philosophy rejects this flexible servitude. The author shows that the corporation is no longer a factory but has become an organism that demands a “soul.” You realize that the freedom you thought you had is nothing but a long leash that was handed to you. Wherever there is a password, there is an invisible guard.