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you are not an individual. Rather, you are a host of ‘dividuals’
(Deleuze 1 994: 258), effected by the social conjunction as an event.
In 1977, Michel Foucault suggested that political philosophy must
detach itself from the problem of sovereignty and the problems of law
and prohibition. ‘We need to cut off the King’s head’, as he famously put
it (Foucault 1980: 121).
Late in his life, Deleuze sensed the emergence of
a stratification that seemed to proceed from a radicalisation of this suggestion,
and which would eventually reconfigure the disciplinary societies
that Foucault analysed. Deleuze termed this new stratification ‘the
societies of control’ (Deleuze 1995 ) . In this formation, your identity is
not dependent on your narrative as a subject, whether of sovereignty or
of discipline, whether as citizen, consumer or family man. Rather, your
self is to be abstracted from databanks, registers, tests and focus group
interviews, and the data is to be personalised in the ‘security’ of passwords
that you memorise. You will be asked to carry out this abstraction
yourself. The ultimate test of ‘being human’ is not the question of
whether you are currently in or have ever been in prison, gone to school,
or been in the army. The ultimate test is: do you currently have a paid
job and which paid jobs have you had? The decisive technologies of our
age are the technologies of the labour market where a decoded flow of
labour joins up with a decoded flow of capital (Deleuze and Guattari
1984: 3 3 ) . Some of these technologies are no more complicated than a
folded piece of paper, a pamphlet.
(to sa mi nezda – preco prave ze ci mas job??)