Truth Machines: The Political Economy of Command and Control

dc.contributor.author	Popowich, Sam
dc.date.accessioned	2025-05-01T16:00:52Z
dc.date.available	2025-05-01T16:00:52Z
dc.date.issued	2017-09-14
dc.description	This article looks at the socio-economic context of Gilles Deleuze's "Postscript on the Societies of Control", and interrogates the technological underpinning of the shift from discipline to control in the centres of advanced capitalism. The paper argues that developments in computer science and cybernetics in the first half of the twentieth century led to a cybernetic capitalism in which statistics, probability, and binary logic create a "post-truth" which serves to structure the self-control and self-regulation of docile subjects. In the end, it argues for a reclamation of "democratic excess" as a means to regain agency and the full richness of the human experience of truth. This article is a pre-print.
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.7939/R3W37M852
dc.language.iso	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subject	Information
dc.subject	Technology
dc.subject	Politics
dc.subject	Data
dc.subject	Critical library and information studies
dc.title	Truth Machines: The Political Economy of Command and Control
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