Disjunctive Tektologies

"The socio-technological study of the mechanisms of control, grasped at their inception, would have to be categorical and to describe what is already in the process of substitution for the disciplinary sites of enclosure, whose crisis is everywhere proclaimed....What counts is that we are at the beginning of something. In the prison system:...the use of electronic collars that force the convicted person to stay at home during certain hours. For the school system: continuous forms of control, and ...perpetual training, the corresponding abandonment of all university research, the introduction of the "corporation" at all levels of schooling. For the hospital system: the new medicine "without doctor or patient" that singles out potential sick people and subjects at risk, which in no way attests to individuation—as they say—but substitutes for the individual or numerical body the code of a "dividual" material to be controlled. In the corporate system: new ways of handling money, profits, and humans that no longer pass through the old factory form."


—Gilles Deleuze, "Postscript on the Societies of Control" (1992).

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