A Hyperized Story

what

A pseudo narrative based on hyperlinks.

The narrative includes readings of Foucault and Deleuze on disciplinary and control societies, TV show Black Mirror, the story of Josh Harris, and many intricate goodies.

Key ideas and terms include:

• Infrastructure
• The geographical location of internet sites
• TV as a controling and normalizing force

List of LINKS and their content

This listing is to help the team organize the narrative and the connection between nodes.

Benjamin's text(s)

• The deterritorialization of educational institutions can also be perceived as a new trend particular to the society of control.
• A sovereign society where the foundation of power was based on a symbolic leader without a strong centralized seat of power.
• Foucault mentioned the use of power as a tool of presenting reality.
• Deleuze’s illustration of the control society’s animal metaphor is the serpent slithering across the power structure.
• As was seen in 'The Waldo Moment' the body of a corporation is multiple, the unity of many.
• Cooperative teaching might be the version of the control society where it spreads from person to person, while corporations affect the masses.

Jules' links

• Some online platforms can still function as spaces of enclosure, but self initiated and rather on a shared interest.

• The characteristics of the Economy of a time orientates the eye sight of the observer.

• We don't need to go to things and people anymore as we can bring them to us.

• The Waldo effect is the effect by which political personalities get replaces by a political interface.

• Hiding a discourse behind an interface enables the speaking body to be constantly reshaping.

• As a consequence of peer to peer collaborations, holoptism has replaced panopticism.

• A personal email account can testify of this person's dividuation.

• New social media platforms encourage the documentation of people's private lives by themselves.

some links on foucault (lucas)

first page:

http://lucasbattich.com/hyper/what.html

Pages written like Dictionary entries:

• On Discipline:

This is like an introduction to discipline societies:

http://lucasbattich.com/hyper/discipline.html

• ON "Foucault":

http://lucasbattich.com/hyper/foucault.html

• On the idea of NORMALIZING JUDGEMENT:

http://lucasbattich.com/hyper/normalizing.html

• On the idea of HERIARCHICHAL OBSERVATION:

And the fact that everyone is an observer and observed at the same time:

http://lucasstudionotes.tumblr.com/post/102449990745/hierarchical-observation

• On the idea of EXAMINATION:

http://lucasbattich.tumblr.com/examination.html

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On Deleuze:

A synopsis on the societes of control: Societies of control

On the notions of "limitless postponement" as the paradigm of control societies (related to Kafka's The Trial) http://lucasbattich.com/hyper/kafka.html

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On the Story on Josh Harris and his Project We Live in Public:

http://lucasbattich.com/hyper/one.html

Thomas' texts and their links

In 1937 the mass observation movement started in the UK.

TV Shows are apparently educate people about the dangers of life.

Using people as basis for entertainment.

The societies of control operate with machines.

Waldo is computer puppet made by the comedian and are a comic relief that exist on a tv show.