Control Culture
Foucault and Deleuze after Discipline
Edited by Frida Beckman
- The most extensive examination yet of control across disciplines and cultural modes of expression
- An important collection for anyone interested in the relation between present-day politics and culture
- Interrogates control as a cultural logic
- Includes incisive readings on Foucault’s and Deleuze’s conceptions of discipline and control
- Contributes to ongoing interrogations into the fate of biopolitics
Starting from Deleuze’s brief but influential work on control, the 11 essays in this book focus on how control mechanisms influence, and are influenced by, cultural expression today. They also collectively re-evaluate Foucault and Deleuze’s theories of discipline and control in light of the continued development of biopolitics.
Acknowledgements
Introduction. Control of What? Frida Beckman
1. Notes from an Investigation of ‘Control Society’ Gregg Lambert
2. Post– Mortem on Race and ControlNeel Ahuja
3. Periodising (With) ControlSeb Franklin
4. Subjects of Sovereign Control and the Art of Critique in the Early Modern Period Carin Franzén
5. Posthumanism, Social Complexity, and the Political: A Genealogy for Foucault’s The Birth of BiopoliticsCary Wolfe
6. ‘That Path is For Your Steps Alone’: Popular Music, Neoliberalism and BiopoliticsJeffrey T. Nealon
7. Cinema in the Age of ControlGregory Flaxman
8. Towards a ‘Minor’ Fascism: Panoptic Control and Resistant Multiplicity in TV’s SpooksColin Gardner
9. Species States: Animal Control in Phil Klay’s RedeploymentColleen Glenney Boggs
10. Control and a Minor LiteratureFrida Beckman
11. Philosophy and Control Paul Patton
Notes on the ContributorsIndex
Criticizing and extending Deleuze's notion of "control society," these essays sharply investigate the philosophical, political, and artistic possibilities of resistance and transformation in a world of ever-shifting monitoring, nudging, and co-optation. From fit-bits to data mining, from wellness programs to echo chambers, the bio-informatics that inform daily practices are here interrogated with nuance and panache.
