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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