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 …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): …
William S. Burroughs
writer · 5 mentions across 3 readings
In this course
Burroughs appears as a theorist of linguistic resistance and media disruption, particularly through his concept of language as a control mechanism that can be strategically subverted. In the course readings, his *Electronic Revolution* is cited as proposing "offensive strategies of enunciation" and "mental manipulation" tactics that counter the controlled circulation of meaning—positioning him alongside Deleuze's concerns about control societies and the need to discover what we're made to serve. His work enables a framework for understanding how artistic and communicative practices might operate as acts of protest against systems that instrumentalize language and information.
Mentioned in 3 readings
Far from giving into some mythology of the Word or an essentialization of meaning, Burroughs, in his Electronic Revolution proposed forms of struggle against the controlled circulation of pronouncements, offensive strategies of enunciation …But the important thing is that the practice of interference, as Burroughs
conceived it, and after him as hackers have, is in vain if it is not
accompanied by an organized practice of reconnaissance into domination.
This need is reinforced …
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