Reflecions on the society of control – Footnotes to the Delezoguattarian machine

Abstract

The present study revolves around the concept of the Deleuzean machine. It undertakes tointroduce the machine from Deleuze’s concept of the societies of control. Thus this paper is nota presentation of the critique of the Freudian and Lacanian notions of desire that the machineis introduced as a late capitalist abstract agent, but a genalogy of the machinic mechanism – asa logic of operation – is outlined from a new perspective. The emphasis of the study is not onpsychoanalises and capitalism, and on schizoanalysis as a critique of them, but ont he operationallogic of the societies of control: the articulation of controlling freedom. Fort he latter, concepctssuch as territory, de- and reterritorialization, as well as the operating principles of cybernetic systems are shed light on. By examining this concept, therefore, the ways of understanding thesocial, economic and political processes of ourt time can be shed new light.