Control societies replace external surveillance with self-policing but require the subject’s complicity.

Evidence

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

• XREF: Echoes Zamyatin’s We in reverse — there an external state watched everyone; here control works through internal self-policing, and citizens become addicted to being controlled. What would the Weil Society make of the Control Addict, who longs for the freedom-control pattern the State imposes externally? — connects to: British classrooms already exhibit the eroded body-discipline that post-Fordist control societies produce. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 49; Strategic refusal of self-surveillance work outperforms strikes against managerialism. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 163; Control societies replace external surveillance with internalized self-policing — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 48 (+6 more)

Related

• Control societies replace external surveillance with internalized self-policing (similarity 0.89)
• Control shifts from external surveillance to a deterrence system internalized as the self. (similarity 0.84)
• Workers in new bureaucracies become their own auditors under internalized surveillance (similarity 0.81)
• Reality television feedback replaced external surveillance with self-integrated control (similarity 0.80)
• Complete surveillance requires those watched to begin monitoring themselves. (similarity 0.79)
• Functional civil societies depend on self-governance rather than fear and surveillance (similarity 0.78)
• Peer-level self-surveillance outweighs state surveillance in producing conformity. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Control shifts from external surveillance to a deterrence system internalized as the self. #corroborates (0.90) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 108
• Surveillance controls populations chiefly through internalized self-policing #corroborates (0.88) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 44
• External surveillance becomes internalized as self-imposed bodily discipline #corroborates (0.85) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 512
• A surveillance society only becomes complete when those surveilled begin to self-surveil. #corroborates (0.85) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 347
• External surveillance becomes internalized and self-imposed discipline on women’s bodies. #exemplifies (0.75) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 371