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| “The difference between discipline & control societies”
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| By Henk-Jelle de Groot
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| • The Difference Between Control & Discipline Society
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DISCIPLINE SOCIETY
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| As by the standard of the Oxford dictionary, discipline means the following: “the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience”. During the rise of mankind discipline has been with us in some way or another. Been it in a way of survival, or being disciplined by society. Lacking the discipline of hunting for food could result in an early death. Not having the discipline to wait for a green light could get you a fine for running a red light. These are examples of self-discipline. But what about the discipline in the form of observation or training? Michel Foucault talks about the way of discipline trough observation in his book: “Discipline & Punish, the birth of the prison” (Foucault, 1975, p195) He refers to the panopticon as a structure build for the purpose of observation. The fact that the subject of the panoption can’t see if it’s being watched is the most interesting function of the panopticon. A subject could have the idea of being watched and therefore act accordingly. In a society as the one we are living in, panopticons can be found everywhere. In the form of self-consciousness and the surroundings you are in. The fact that you could be watched and logged in many ways during the course of your life confirms this. Structure in the sense of observation is to be found everywhere. Ranging from windows at a certain height or elevated prison floors to observe prisoners. A good example of an analytical structure can be found in the way miners from Guatemala preserve their work clothes. The miners have their own cage where they can insert their belongings or work clothes. The cage can be elevated or lowered according to the fact if there is something inside. The cage system gives the supervisor a good presentation of who is working and what belongings are carried with that person. With these methods existing in everyday life, and the way things are organized or controlled. One could say we live in a disciplined society.
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Control Society a term that lives side by side with the discipline society. The controlled society is a shell for the disciplined society to live in. Described by Deleuze as installations like family, school, army, prison, hospital and factory (Deleuze 1990 p3-4). The installations have functioned as a shell for the discipline, but as Burroughs stated the controlled society is replacing the discipline society. A monster coined “Control Society” by Burroughs and recognized by Foucault as our immediate future. “In the disciplinary societies one was always starting again (from school to the barracks, from the barracks to the factory), while in the societies of control one is never finished with anything-the corporation, the educational system, the armed services being metastable states coexisting in one and the same modulation, like a universal system of deformation.” (Deleuze 1990 p5) A control society is an ever-evolving set of rules where the rules modulate other rules to coexist in one system. Like Deleuze has concluded, the discipline society is build out of elements where one could leave one and enter a new one. And where the control society is metastable and modulating itself. The introduction of the computer has strengthened this hypothesis. Where the old (discipline) societies where build out of simple machines involving energy, with the passive danger of entropy and the active danger of sabotage.(Deleuze 1990 p6) The new (control) society deals with a new machine that is prone to viruses and capable of piracy. With a new society as control society comes a new form of capitalism. The old society dealt with gold as a standard currency and the new society deals in stocks and bitcoins. Factories have turned in corporations, in the early days factories provided work and salaries. Salaries in the form like gold, food or a house. The new corporations are in metastable states, one could buy a part of the corporation it works for to a certain level to own the company itself. Using the computer as an element of control could also work the other way around. The computer could end up controlling to user and/or the society.
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONTROL & DISCIPLINE SOCIETY
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ARCHIVE SOCIETY
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