Any comparison between two historical periods suggests this question: Which is preferable? There may be an answer, but for Deleuze discipline versus control does not create a hierarchy so much as distinct contexts for a continuing tension b…Brunton, F. and H. Nissenbaum. 2016. Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest. Boston: MIT Press.
Cohen, J. 2018. ‘Biopolitical Public Domain: The Legal Construction of the Surveillance Economy’, Philosophy & Technology 31 (2): …
Paul Rabinow
anthropologist · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Paul Rabinow is an anthropologist whose work on biopolitics and the governance of life provides a crucial theoretical framework for understanding how surveillance systems and data extraction operate as forms of contemporary social control. The course readings invoke Rabinow's concepts to interrogate the transition from disciplinary mechanisms to what Deleuze calls "societies of control," where monitoring and data collection become diffuse and internalized rather than centralized and institutional. His anthropological approach enables scholars like Cohen and Brunton/Nissenbaum to historicize surveillance not as aberration but as a continuous restructuring of how power manages human life through information capture.
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