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)
x http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/User:Themsen/RW5 The deterritorialization of educational institutions can also be perceived as a new trend particular to the society of control; as the originally centralized organization of education was too slow to react to trends and new flows of information. This focus on the performance of education as opposed to the disciplinary representation of its institutions has diversified the mode of teaching in finnish schools.
x http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/why-are-finlands-schools-successful-49859555/?no-ist#comment-1689654102 The decentralization and deterritorialization of the finnish school reminds one of the sovereign society where the foundation of power was based on a symbolic leader without a strong centralized seat of power, where the production of this society was dependent on the taxes (or tributes) of its subjects.
x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scsp7V9Jpvg&google_comment_id=z12ef1d5ktqle532z22xidfhqkyaytrwp04 Speaking of discourse, Foucault mentioned the use of power as a tool of presenting reality. Without a virtual component it becomes difficult to distinguish what is real and what isn’t. When Deleuze mentions disciplinary society he defines it as one of transition, to the new ‘monster’, as Foucault puts it. The society of control is this predicted monster.
x https://www.facebook.com/SerpentAttack/posts/784984781567566 Deleuze’s illustration of the control society’s animal metaphor is the serpent slithering across the power structure. It isn’t a single entity, most likely multiple as its main source of power is information. In the society of control information is a tool for domination and control more than it is for the disciplinary society.
x http://loliconangel.deviantart.com/art/My-teacher-is-a-vampire-adoptable-313176504 As was seen in 'The Waldo Moment' the body of a corporation is multiple, the unity of many; this also applies to cooperative teaching. The virtual image of the corporation is a clear-cut image, and so does the virtual image of the cooperate teacher also has to be in order for education to reach its optimum.
The cooperative teaching is one body, where the teachers work towards a unified goal using both of each one's strength.
x http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Am-Confused-About-Many-Things/5109554 Cooperative teaching might be the version of the control society where it spreads from person to person, and corporations may be the manifestation for crowd-controlling masses. Each use homework, or working at a distance, as their ways of observing and affecting subjects even outside their enclosures; teaching merely has a more consistent history of home-work.
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.
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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, The reasoning behind this was to revel how society really was by looking on people behaviors. Later and after the war it moved toward looking at commercial side of observation or research and the moment slowly died out. But the act of people watching still exist, but now the main activity is moved to peoples social media feed and tv. In 2005 20% is consuming fastfood but 90% are using social media. http://mailinator.com/inbox.jsp?to=hypertextnarrative#/#showmailpane
To often there are TV Shows that are apparently there to educate people about the dangers about things like bad health, social issues or life style, but if you look at them they exist to normalizing judgment on the basis at entertainment. As Foucault said “The power of the norm appears through the disciplines. (page 183)” http://walskaphoto.wordpress.com/2014/11/12/the-power-of-the-norm-appears-through-the-disciplines/
Show like the UK shows “Benefits Street” “Honey we are Killing the Kids” and “ The Jeremy Kyle Show” are using people as basis for enteraiment. With tv show determine the norm, people will act that what they see in tv as reality. In the 1970 Professor George Gerber and Larry Gross put forward «Cultivation Theory», Over time watching TV is charing people prospective of reality. If people are watching on tv that people that live on benefits are slobs, then people will think that everyone on benefit are slobs after a while. http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/User:ThomasW/hybrid_text_2
The old societies of sovereignty made use of simple machines – levels and pulley, clocks; but the recent disciplinary societies equipped themselves with machines involving energy, with the passive danger of entropy and the active danger of sabotage; the societies of control operate with machines of a third type, computers, whose passive danger is jamming and whose active one is piracy and the introduction of virus. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_0U0G-aGmnlHYw1j7S4l4vSvrLf1vQUTqjvt41p_4yM/edit?usp=sharing
In the UK Tv-series Black Mirror we get to know the character Waldo in one of the episodes. Waldo is computer puppet made by the comedian and are a comic relief that exist on a tv show. Soon Waldo purpose changes at the character with no ideas thoughts of his one are used to go after real politicians after he one on of his gags are made fun of. It all aspire that the anti political on becomes the politicians. A real life person not that that dissimilar is Russell Brand with is outgoing and rebel persona, a person that strongly agains politics but has turn him self as a politicians and front man for the disillusioned groups in society. https://www.dropbox.com/s/zcc9svsoa6hbi62/Waldo.html?dl=0