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Deleuze, Gilles Postscript on the Societies of Control 1992 Article Surveillance Foucault, Disciplinary Societies, Control, Historiography, Individuality, Machines
Citation Deleuze, Gilles 1992 Article October Foucault Disciplinary Societies Control Historiography Individuality Machines Surveillance

"Postscript on the Societies of Control"

by Deleuze, Gilles (1992)

Abstract

Foucault located the disciplinary societies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; they reach their height at the outset of the twentieth. They initiate the organization of vast spaces of enclosure. The individual never ceases passing from one closed environment to another …

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Foucault, Disciplinary Societies, Control, Historiography, Individuality, Machines

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Surveillance

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