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 governance provides crucial grounding for understanding how contemporary surveillance systems operate beyond traditional discipline. His ethnographic approach to how power circulates through scientific and medical institutions appears in the course readings' engagement with biopolitical frameworks—particularly in discussions of control societies and the emergence of what Cohen calls the "surveillance economy." Rabinow's conceptual vocabulary around biosecurity and anthropos appears as a touchstone for theorizing how algorithmic systems extend governance into domains previously thought private or autonomous.
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