Turning from technology to mood, there was an anguish in the original essay. It is up to us, Deleuze warned, ‘to discover what we’re being made to serve’ when our lives are subjected to the control society (Deleuze 1992: 7). The essay also …Switching from mood to psychology, the updating of Deleuze’s essay begins with a devious twist. For the future city where he imagined an e-card swipe granting entry to each location, Deleuze proposed, ‘The card could just as easily be rejec…In 1990, Deleuze drew numerous conceptual distinctions between discipline and control societies.
Discipline operates through discrete and separate spaces, which means that physical thresholds impose behaviour shifts: no eating in the livin…
Franz Kafka
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Kafka appears in these readings as the literary figure through which Deleuze articulates the existential anxiety of control societies—the anguish of discovering what we're made to serve through systems of surveillance and contingent access. The course uses Kafka to ground an affective or psychological dimension of what might otherwise be a purely technical argument about digital governance and biometric sorting. His work provides the humanistic counterweight to theories of algorithmic control, offering a mood or sensibility rather than a systematic concept.
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