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Review of the introduction of the society of Discipline and the society of Control
25-09-2013 - Intro – Guardian | Orwell 1984- NSA – return to a totalitarian state? “Obama is a nice guy” “David Cameron is a nice Social Democrat” (?) - General guidelines lecture – How can the suppressive system be ruled by nice guys? control, encapsulation of people in prisons, schools etc control power through informational interchanges control via peoples access of information we are contributing to the flow of data material discourse, discourse is action in space Focault: The means of correct training - This is something else than a state control: participatory surveillance / capitalism/….? - Information flow is free but the way it flows is designed. Tailored channels are made to fit profiles, consumer data, and all kind of information (…) - Notion of panoptic (um) – internalization of the surveillance system [govern mentality – Foucault] - Governing from a distance; distribution of power (really?) - Panopticum, Jeremy Bentham and Foucault- Panoptic - “the means of correct training” (1975, Foucault) + Super-Panopticum “Foucault and databases” (Poster) database: the organizational principle that calls us to explain, organize our shelves major change in the way records are kept (we participate n share) surveillance without a particular space non-scopic surveillance devices
(Panopticum scheme-floor plan and section) it doesn’t matter anymore if somebody is really in the tower observing once the notion of being observed is already internalized. Prisoners would naturally behave as if being surveyed. (“Means of information makes out of us different people, its shapes us”) Panopticum: maximum efficiency / utility; disciplinary, formative structure (corrective). We normalize our behavior when we believe we are being watched. Classical age: Before the 17th century body was the subject of power and punishment: through injury and mutilation Modern age: body goes through disciplinary and corrective procedures in particular institutions (hospitals, schools, prison, factories, barracks) – efficiency – body docility. Efficiency gained through codification SPACE and TIME; normalization; discipline, work and exercise. Time code (ranking for each individual) – timetable Space code – architectural plan (gives each individual a place). Foucault’s bio power: distribution of bodies in space and time. “The body is no longer subject to the will of a ruler but enters a disciplinary system where surveillance, discipline, ranking and self regulation, are key elements” (…) DISCIPLINARY SOCIETY – “can we actually have good guys in charge?” advantage: common right to education and healthcare and so on. Disadvantage: cogs in a machine. “Anyhow, we are born in a disciplinary society, how could it otherwise be?” “How was it before?” Correct training = norm achievement (Example- the use of photography for a normative research and statement) Eadweard Muybridge – “Motion Studies” observation, examination, normalization Cesare Lombroso – “Typology of Criminals” 1870, classify, qualify, diagnose, punish
Difference between Disciplinary Society and Society of Control (synthesis) Disciplinary Society: behavior regulation through time and space code Society of Control: control of information, knowledge and perception (coding, filtering, encrypting). We discipline ourselves to perform in a certain way. We become a commodity (Foucault) Performance: volunteer for an eternal state of performance (social media). It became imperative to present ourselves through an integral profile in which professional skills, personal life and personality mingle in one single narrative (the eternal performance). (Deleuze) celebrity- neoliberal, performing subject, performance subject essential to get visibility we become commodity, the production of the individual as commodity we sell ourself nonscopic surveillance devices The cartesian person: celebrity performing in a talk show as a successful person in society self performance in the economy through the economy
Super Panopticum: cards, receipts, chips, codes, passwords, we became a walking database for our own commodity. We use devices that translate our behavior, choices and actions into images and data. The new ways of control go beyond a space or time code. To consume we have to hand in information and we believe it benefits us.
Digital age: deterritorialization of control mode; this is the essential difference between disciplinary society and society of control. We need both though, and they overlap at the moment. Do we fake a need for time and space code?
The Database is systematically regulatory, every free service we use is built to so the interface works in programmed way, requiring a discipline from the user. The more interaction with this software the more self discipline codes are distributed through our internalized self.
PERFORMING IN THE DATABASE When we used to trade labour for capital we were striving for social efficiency in an act of self discipline. Now that data has economic value and can define the self we have becoming subjects that perform in the database.The Neo liberal performing subject = the reality TV star.
We live in Public 1999 (Josh Harris) You get the freedom to behave, exactly as you are expected to behave. creating a system fully surveillanced, closed sys experiment no need of a personality and identification detach from ones self
Stanford experiment (1970) The performance of roles and how you become what you are told to be, despite your background, education or principles. 20 student participated in an experiment in Harvard uni in the basement, 10 acted as prisons, 10 as guards they fastly got attached to their new identities
The OZ tale “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”
What can we actually conclude form the Reality TV phenomena, besides the fact that it seems to be an evil massive tool of behavior control? Where is the ethical limit between the experiment in the pursuit of knowledge and the arbitrary voyeurism?
next Week fear of freedom fromm go read the primay texts/ Deleuze postscript on societies of control immaterial labour. Lazzarato discipline and punish - means of correct training. Masters of reality page 67.
2 weeks (1000 words) backing up the report with quotations from the reference book. use collab report on society of discipline and control.
use this resource of the narrative of discipline society and control society. how are we still alone the representation of the individual pods in the panoptican , each one acts alone. With digital communication we are constantly connected via the mechanisms of control so perhaps the sense of being alone is still very strong but the simulation of collectively connectivity covers it. The eye in the tower of the panocptican is now in the collective shared society. People still behaving like there being watched but also reporting it themselves (sati big bother state)
autocorrect, Facebook report this(and flag this report like culture), wikipedia (how does that work for knowledge),
biopolitics - the body starts to change according to other people.
Governmentality - Governmental reason - media can be utilised to govern for a distance. Britten family 'killing your children example' examination, training, discipline, quantitative facts , institution (regulation),