Group 5, "Society of control" and "Racism and Fascism"
"Society of control"
We live in the place which operates by disciplines. The difference is that, in the old day, we are disciplined at the factory, school, and hospital. However, in the control of society, the corporation replaces them. In the society of control, everything identified by code; thus, we no longer find ourselves dealing with mass/ individual pair. Individuals have become “dividuals” such as masses, data, banks. Substitute for the individual or numerical body of a dividual material to be controlled.
The text also mentions that "scandals" are arising from technology, "with the passive danger of entropy and the active danger of sabotage; the
societies of control operate with machines of a third type, computers, whose
passive danger is jamming and whose active one is piracy or the introduction
of viruses."
Not only that, while technology is freeing us, it is trapping us as well, as in this example, "Felix Guattari has imagined a city where one would be able to leave one's
apartment, one's street, one's neighborhood, thanks to one's (dividual)
electronic card that raises a given barrier; but the card could just as
easily be rejected on a given day or between certain hours; what counts is
not the barrier but the computer that tracks each person's position--licit
or illicit--and effects a universal modulation."
Society is shifting from "disciplinary societies" (foucault-ian society
where we are constantly "passing from one closed environment to another,
each having its own laws..." pp.1) to "societies of control".
(process analyzed by Virilio)
"Racism and Fascism"
This text discusses marketing and it's effects on our minds.
There is a "final solution" ( pp.1) reference to Hitler's final solution, which is genocide.
Outlined that final solution(genocide) is last step, involves other means to reach that end.
The "enemy" referred to in article could be anything:
-Jews in Nazi Germany ?
-Terrorism/ terrorists/ unamericanism-unpatriotism in modern US
-Opponents to racism in modern society
It is outlined that fascism is carrying out the article's 10 steps on us.
We live in the place which operates by disciplines. The difference is that, in the old day, we are disciplined at the factory, school, and hospital. However, in the control of society, the corporation replaces them. In the society of control, everything identified by code; thus, we no longer find ourselves dealing with mass/ individual pair. Individuals have become “dividuals” such as masses, data, banks. Substitute for the individual or numerical body of a dividual material to be controlled.
The text also mentions that "scandals" are arising from technology, "with the passive danger of entropy and the active danger of sabotage; the
societies of control operate with machines of a third type, computers, whose
passive danger is jamming and whose active one is piracy or the introduction
of viruses."
Not only that, while technology is freeing us, it is trapping us as well, as in this example, "Felix Guattari has imagined a city where one would be able to leave one's
apartment, one's street, one's neighborhood, thanks to one's (dividual)
electronic card that raises a given barrier; but the card could just as
easily be rejected on a given day or between certain hours; what counts is
not the barrier but the computer that tracks each person's position--licit
or illicit--and effects a universal modulation."
Society is shifting from "disciplinary societies" (foucault-ian society
where we are constantly "passing from one closed environment to another,
each having its own laws..." pp.1) to "societies of control".
(process analyzed by Virilio)
"Racism and Fascism"
This text discusses marketing and it's effects on our minds.
There is a "final solution" ( pp.1) reference to Hitler's final solution, which is genocide.
Outlined that final solution(genocide) is last step, involves other means to reach that end.
The "enemy" referred to in article could be anything:
-Jews in Nazi Germany ?
-Terrorism/ terrorists/ unamericanism-unpatriotism in modern US
-Opponents to racism in modern society
It is outlined that fascism is carrying out the article's 10 steps on us.
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