![]() ![]() Companies such as Google and Facebook harvest your location data to sell to other corporations. Reading Deleuze’s predictions, it is easy to see how this open and virtual city has become a realistic development in the twenty-first century. ![]() ‘… A city where one would be able to leave one’s apartment, one’s street, one’s neighbourhood, thanks to one’s electronic card that raises a given barrier but the card could just as easily be rejected on a given day or between certain hours what matters is not the barrier but the computer that tracks each person’s position – licit or illicit – and effects a universal modulation’ (Deleuze, 1990 p.6). ![]() ![]() In his short Postscript on Societies of Control(1990), Deleuze warned of a future where the functioning bourgeois technologies of control would extend beyond the predictable confines of the state, the family, and the factory floor into an everyday open and virtual environment: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism raises important questions about the authoritarian use of digital technologies, but the solution needs to be radical, argues Reece Goscinski Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Profile Books 2019), viii, 691pp.īefore his death in 1995, the French poststructuralist and self-confessed Marxist philosopher Gilles Deleuze delivered a worrying assessment of the future. ![]()
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