Control Culture
Foucault and Deleuze after Discipline
Published on 25. August 2020
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Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-1-4744-3676-2 (ISBN)
Description
Starting from Deleuze's brief but influential work on control, the 11 essays in this book focus on the question of how contemporary control mechanisms influence, and are influenced by, cultural expression. They also collectively revaluate Foucault and Deleuze's theories of discipline and control in light of the continued development of biopolitics. Written by an impressive line-up of contemporary scholars of philosophy, politics and culture the essays cover the particularity of control in relation to various fields and modes of expression including literature, cinema, television, music and philosophy.
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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. * John Protevi, Louisiana State University *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 231 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-3676-2 (9781474436762)
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Frida Beckman is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her books include Control Culture: Foucault and Deleuze after Discipline (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016). She has also published extensively on Deleuze, where her books include Gilles Deleuze: A Critical Life (Reaktion Books, 2017), Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality (Edinburgh University Press, 2013) and the edited collection Deleuze and Sex (Edinburgh University Press, 2011).
Content
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 Franzen
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
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 Franzen
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