Annotation---Postscript on the Societies of Control

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Postscript on the Societies of Control introduce Foucault's idea of disciplinary societies, which initiate the organization of vast spaces of enclosure and concentrate in production, distribute in space; to order in time; which maximize the efficience and labour force. After World War 2. The societies of control in the process of replacing the disciplinart societies.

The societies of control the new system of domination, Which much more comples then the disciplinary societies. In the scieties of control, If encloseures are molds,but controls are a modulation, self-deforming cast will continuously change from one to the other. The different internments or spaces of encloseure through which the individual passes are independent variables. On the other hand, the different control mechanisms are inseparable variations. The disciplinary man was a discontinuous producer of energy, but the man if control is undulatory in orbit, in a continuous network. Control is short-term and of rapid rates of turnover, but also continuous and without limit, while discipline was of long duration, infinite and discontinuous.


1. crisis

crisis is used to be proclaimed everywhere in the disciplinary societies. The underwent crisis of discipnary societies benefit the forces of the socirties of control, which replaced the discipnary societies.

However in the societies of control, the crisis will be but with modifications. The Crisis of the insitutions in societies of control become a part of the progressive instrument of the system of domination.


2.machines

The old societies of sovereignty made use of simple machines ---levers pulleys clocks,,but recent disciplinary societies equipped themselves with machines involving energy. The societies of control use computers.


3.Number and code

The disciplinary societies use numeration that indicates individual within a mass. Because diciplinary societies molds the individuality of each member of one body. In The societies of control, use code as a password mark access or reject to information. Individuals have become “dividuals”, masses samples data markets or “blanks”.


4. The evolution or mutation of capitalism

No longer a capitalism for production and property but Concentration for product, being sold or marketed.