Description:Abstract
The information age has been marked by complex advancements in
the technologies of social management. Many of these advancements have
been discussed in recent political theory. However, a thorough
engagement with their mechanism and historical resonance remains
necessary in order to substantiate such discussion. In this
dissertation, I situate and analyze the increasingly informatic,
molecular, and distributed technologies of power characteristic of
"control societies" on a throughly substantive level. My research
substantiates a number of claims made in recent political theory
regarding control societies, and indicates that only a politics of
positive feedback is adequate to the mechanism of such societies.