Deleuze - Postcript on the Limits of Control
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Barry and Mike discuss Deleuze's "Postscript on the Society of Control" to investigate all of the ways that he argues societies have been kept in line. As Deleuze argues that we currently inhabit two separate but related control rubrics simultaneously, there is a bit to tease out. The guys trace the history of social control according to Foucalt and Deleuze with the aim of understanding what our technologically enabled freedoms actually cost and why the freedom to do what we'd like might not be much of a freedom at all.
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