If, in the past, from an inflection at the moment when the modern era was inaugurated, society has experienced a considerable change in its power relations, these relationships are currently going through a new moment of change. At the...
moreIf, in the past, from an inflection at the moment when the modern era was inaugurated, society has experienced a considerable change in its power relations, these relationships are currently going through a new moment of change. At the beginning of the Modern era, according to Michel Foucault, there was the transition from a society based on the dominant-dominated dichotomy to a discipline-based society. At the present time, there is the transition of this society from discipline to the control society, based on continuous control and instant communication. The society of discipline sought to shape the bodies to certain models and truths and Gilles Deleuze argues that the disciplinary crisis began after the Second World War. In the control society, the molds become quickly and continuously, which prevents the identification of the models, causing it to operate more and more by the production of subjectivities. Sophisticated mechanisms of "truth creation" and "consensu...
