The Concepts of Life and the Living in the Societies of Control

• Published in: Deleuze and the Social pp. 171 - 190
• Main Author: Lazzarato, Maurizio
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh University Press 21.06.2006
• Subjects: Behavioral sciences; Biopolitics; Biopower; Capitalism; Cognitive psychology; Continental philosophy; Correctional institutions; Correctional system; Criminal justice; Criminal law; Economic theory; Economics; Epistemology; Human societies; Labor movements; Law; Marxian economics; Memory; Metaphilosophy; Metaphysics; Monads; Monism; Nietzschean philosophy; Ontological multiplicity; Ontology; Philosophy; Political philosophy; Political science; Prisons; Psychology; Public opinion; Social attitudes; Social movements; Social psychology; Sociology; Subjectivity; Western philosophy

We have left behind the epoch of discipline to enter that of control. Gilles Deleuze described in a concise but effective way this passage from disciplinary societies to the societies of control (Deleuze 1990). He provided us with this historical reconstruction by setting out from the dynamics of di...