Reality television feedback replaced external surveillance with self-integrated control
Evidence
TV’s Big Brother had superseded Orwell’s Big Brother. We the audience are not subjected to a power that comes from outside; rather, we are integrated into a control circuit that has our desires and preferences as its only mandate – but those desires and preferences are returned to us, no longer as ours, but as the desires of the big Other. Clearly, these circuits are not confined to television: cybernetic feedback systems (focus groups, demographic surveys) are now integral to the delivery of all ‘services’, including education and government. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 99
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s own work themes on surveillance, self-monitoring, and outsourcing of control — parallels Base Nation’s ‘troops become their own auditors’ and the OFSTED internal-inspection insight in [103] itself. — connects to: Control societies replace external surveillance with internalized self-policing — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 48; External surveillance becomes internalized as self-imposed bodily discipline — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 512
Related
- Control by feedback has replaced centralized external power in late capitalism (similarity 0.87)
- Control shifts from external surveillance to a deterrence system internalized as the self. (similarity 0.82)
- Control societies replace external surveillance with self-policing but require the subject’s complicity. (similarity 0.80)
- Workers in new bureaucracies become their own auditors under internalized surveillance (similarity 0.79)
- External inspection has been introjected as permanent internal surveillance (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Control societies replace external surveillance with internalized self-policing
#expands(0.95) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 48 - External surveillance becomes internalized as self-imposed bodily discipline
#expands(0.85) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 512