The Post-Panopticon - a podcast by Ryder Richards

In Part I we recap some of Foucault's panoptic implications, and then begin to consider some critiques of his ideas, with a heavy emphasis on Gilles Deleuze and how the controlled environment and "productive soul training" of Foucault is no longer a primary means of power how power moves, disperses, and obfuscates itself.

In Part II Deleuze discusses the multiplicity and fragmentation of the corporation, and thus the individual, who can now be seen as a password or code, a set of behavior patterns  to be controlled at access points rather than restrained and trained. Control tasks and access to desires, and a corporations short-term goals can be achieved, yest the power is so dispersed (rhizomatic) and motivations obfuscated that we seem to be fighting against ourselves when we push back. 

Haggerty and Ericson's notion of the "surveillant assemblage" and how the dispersed recording machines work together to generate a "data double," with the ability to predict events and behaviors leads us into Surveillance Capitalism. 

The Will to DIY website has references: https://thewilltodiy.com/step-14-post-panopticon/

1:05 Control Corp is looking for new members to join our familteam! 

3:40 Corporations as a "control society" with their own desires, abstracting individuals into passwords. 

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8:31 What is a "dividual"? You being fragmented until corporations can build a "data double" of you. 

11:25 Strutting your curated self on social media still hands over data (on you and your viewers) to companies who obfuscate thier intent. 

 

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