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"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 …

Keywords

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

Themes

Surveillance

Links to Reference

Citation

Deleuze, Gilles. “Postscript on the Societies of Control.” October, vol. 59, JSTOR, 1992, pp. 3–7.

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