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“Postscript on the Societies of Control” by Gilles Deleuze
I. Historical
Foucault located the disciplinary societies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; they reach their height at the outset of the twentieth. They initiate the organization 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 at school”); then the factory; from time to time the hospital; possibly the prison, the preeminent instance of the enclosed environment. It’s the prison that serves as the analogical model: at the sight of some laborers, the heroine of Rossellini’s Europa ‘51 could exclaim, “I thought I was seeing convicts.”
The War on Piracy: From Cold to Hot
“We need, across the board, to move IP enforcement up the agenda of the federal government,” [NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker] said.To that end, the [U.S.] Chamber [of Commerce] is pushing for the creation of a new White House post called “chief intellectual property enforcement officer,” increased spending for border and law enforcement, and stepped-up […]
2008 The Institute of Illogical Operation. 