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Synopsis: Deleuze, Gilles - Postscript on the Societies fo Control

French poststructuralist Gilles Deleuze describes that after the SWW a new type of societies emerged, known as the Societies of Control. Befor there were a disciplinary societies(Foucault) with the high point at the beginning of the twentieth century. Simple explained was for the disciplinary societies important the different stations(family, school, factory,... ) of enclosure, that you walked through your whole life. In the societies of Control "one is never finished with anything." To see as best the distinction between the two societies is the use of money, in Societies of Control the gold exchange standard of currencies is not more used.

The new code of regulation for every subject is now the "password" and replaced the code "watchword" of the disciplinary societies. In a little bit materialistic view Deleuze refers that older societies of sovereignty were shaped by there machines like levers and polleys, for the disciplinary societies were it the power plants and the nowadays technological conditions for the societies is the computer.

"The corporation has replaced the factory", in his sense, this mutated capitalism changed to a service orientated and is not more a product orientated capitalism. This change signifies also necessary modification for different systems:in the prison system with penalties of "substituion", in the school system with lifelong training, for the hospital system with searching for future risk through potential sick people and in the corporate system with new forms of the market and "... humans that no longer pass through the old factory form."

Give some attention on this two sentences, that Deleuze wrote with a lot of metaphores "Everywhere surfing has already replaced the older sports." and "The coils of a serpent are even more complex than the burrows of a molehill."