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There is a standing contradiction between the power and status that stems from self-indulgence and the power and status that stems from self-discipline. Ozempic and the other similar drugs sit at the nexus of this contradiction.
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In the disciplinary societies one was always starting again (from school to the barracks, from the barracks to the factory), while in the societies of control one is never finished with anything—the corporation, the educational system, the armed services being metastable states coexisting in one and the same modulation, like a universal system of deformation.
Postscript on the Societies of Control
Gilles Deleuze
Campolo and Schwerzmann write. Our status in relation to machine-controlled “AI” processes depends on “a series of ever-modifiable but unintelligible correlations,” which makes us more unintelligible to ourselves the more we are compelled to interact with them. (A hard-core Kantian might claim that this assaults the “transcendental unity of apperception” that allows us to experience coherent subjectivity at all.)
The Blackbird Must Be Flying
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