Postscript on the Societies of Control

什么是control society？ 它和disciplinary 的不同处？ 新的武器是什么？ But in control society,corporation replaced factory,which is a spirit,a gas.

notes

• Historical

Foucault--Disciplinary Society:

the family -- the school -- the barrack --the factory (from time to time) the hospital (possibly) the prison (which is the preeminent instance of the enclosed environment)

Ideal project(particularly visible within the factory):to concentrate,to distribute in space,to order in time to compose a productive force within the dimension of space-time whose effect will be greater than the sum of its component forces. but this model is transience (it succeeded that of the societies of sovereignty,the goal and fuctions of which were something quite different)

enclosure:圈划 There is no need to fear or hope，but only to look for new weapons.

• Logic

controls are a modulation,like a self-deforming cast that will continuously change from one moment to the other,or like a sieve whose mesh will transmute from point to point.

E.G.：salaries factory——body contain internal force at a balance.it doesn't depend on one's production .

But in control society,corporation replaced factory,which is a spirit,a gas.it works more deeply to impose a modulation of each salary.(If the most idiotic TV game shows are so successful,it is because they express the corporate situation with great precision.