File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1996/96-10-10.144, message 34


From: Stephen Arnott <sarnott-AT-metz.une.edu.au>
Subject: Control Societies
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 15:22:01 +1000 (EST)


Foucault is oft criticized for diagnosing mechanisms of subjectification
but failing to provide appropriate strategies to deal with the domination.

Deleuze (and Guattari) diagnosed the movement from disciplinary societies
to those of control. Is he then guilty in failing to provide strategies to
cope with such an onslaught? Is the war machine of any use to us? Do the
binary and abstract machines of the state and/or private enterprise still
operate at this dividual level?

Deleuze looks to the great minor figures of literature as models for
becoming-imperceptible, and yet as traitors to established order and
dominant signofications. Can dressing in drag really serve to subvert the
gender biasing characteristic of the binary machine? Can we have power
without numbers?

Is anyone thinking about stuff like this? Is there any reading?


   

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