Control societies replace external surveillance with internalized self-policing

Evidence

Deleuze observes that the Control societies delineated by Kafka himself, but also by Foucault and Burroughs, operate using indefinite postponement: Education as a lifelong process… Training that persists for as long as your working life continues… Work you take home with you… Working from home, homing from work. A consequence of this ‘indefinite’ mode of power is that external surveillance is succeeded by internal policing. Control only works if you are complicit with it. Hence the Burroughs figure of the ‘Control Addict’: the one who is addicted to control, but also, inevitably, the one who has been taken over, possessed by Control. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 48

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains Kafka’s two acquittal types and connects indefinite postponement to Deleuze’s Control society concept.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Internalized self-censorship enforces conformity more effectively than state propaganda — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 166; Flagging systems transform users into amateur editors and police — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet: Platforms,…, 630; Control society replaced confinement with self-created open space — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 51 (+13 more)

Related

• Control societies govern by indefinite postponement and internalized policing (similarity 0.91)
• Control societies replace external surveillance with self-policing but require the subject’s complicity. (similarity 0.89)
• Control shifts from external surveillance to a deterrence system internalized as the self. (similarity 0.81)
• Workers in new bureaucracies become their own auditors under internalized surveillance (similarity 0.79)
• Functional civil societies depend on self-governance rather than fear and surveillance (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance controls populations chiefly through internalized self-policing #corroborates (0.98) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 44
• Control societies replace external surveillance with self-policing but require the subject’s complicity. #expands (0.90) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 48
• Control shifts from external surveillance to a deterrence system internalized as the self. #corroborates (0.90) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 108
• Visible surveillance makes subjects police themselves without any force #corroborates (0.88) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 315
• External surveillance becomes internalized as self-imposed bodily discipline #expands (0.82) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 512
• External surveillance becomes internalized self-discipline through dress choices #exemplifies (0.80)
• Mutual surveillance becomes the habitat within which social conformity is engineered #expands (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1365
• Functional civil societies depend on self-governance rather than fear and surveillance #qualifies (0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 70