Modulation after Control

Hui, Yuk

doi:10.3898/newf:84/85.04.2015

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“…Deleuze predicted that the modulatory mode of control would supersede discipline. The degree that one has or has not replaced the other has become a significant bone of contention that has led to critical questioning about the basis of Deleuze's (1992) account of modulation in "Postscript" (Hui 2015). Our position, like others' (Iveson and Maalsen 2019;Savat 2013;Andrejevic 2019), is that the two modalities of power are contemporaneous and often overlap.…”

Section: Modulation and Disciplinementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our first harm, amplification, has been most clearly articulated in the extant literature. Hui (2015) argues, based on Gilbert Simondon's (2005) work, that amplification needs to be considered as part of understanding the impact of modulation on identity formation. Here, amplification operates in three ways.…”

Section: Amplificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Third, as a synthesis of the first two effects, amplification organises in an auto-regulatory sense. Hui (2015) further argues that amplification has three modes in a modulatory setting. It has a "crowd effect" that is characterised by the seamless and transductive speed of turning a sensor reading into a prescriptive nudge.…”

Section: Amplificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Put together, the end point of amplification in modulatory settings is to effect "auto-regulation" (Hui 2015: 82), that is the self-perpetuating shaping of individual and collective identity through automated processes of prediction and prescription. Hui (2015) considers issues of amplification from a purely modulatory perspective, albeit one that seeks to redefine Deleuze's (1992) obliquely defined anti-capitalist base of modulation in "Postscript." Savat ( 2013) also considers amplification arising from modulatory and disciplinary power.…”

Section: Amplificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Modulation Harms and The Google Home

Burdon

Cohen

2021

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Deleuze’s (1992) modulation is frequently invoked to explain power relations in hyper-connected, sensorised environments. However, attempts to articulate the harmful implications of modulation—a critical step in the process of considering the need for legal intervention—have been modest. In this paper, we theorise four harms arising from the exercise of modulatory power: subsumption, amplification, vibration, and alienation. To do so, we outline the core features of Deleuzean modulatory power (Deleuze 1992), illustrated through contrasts with Foucauldian discipline (Foucault 1995, 1988). Then, drawing on Julie Cohen’s (2013, 2015, 2018, 2019) modulation as a two-way flow of predicted and prescripted modes of governance and knowledge production, we explore and situate our harms in the sensorised and smart home, employing Google’s patented vision as a concrete example (Fadell et al. 2020). We contend that modulation harms arise from the continuous flow and constant agitation of insistent modification (D’Amato 2019) enabled by sensorisation. The core power act that gives rise to modulation harm is the ability to harness, direct, and provide “frequency” to flows of sensor data to achieve continual behavioural modification and shape social norms about the purposes and benefits of such modification. The overarching harm we identify is subsumption, the infrastructural enclosure of all sensorised environments that enables social shaping to take place anywhere, which gives rise to the other modulation harms. Amplification harms regard auto-regulatory norms as an unquestioned facet of an automated human life. Vibration harms arise from the automated ability to prescribe changes in affect. Alienation harms regard subtle denials of access to informational networks. We show that the Google sensorised home both modulates and disciplines occupants concurrently, but more importantly, these concurrent power acts can take place wherever an individual is tethered to the modulation infrastructure and sensor data can be harnessed.

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Section: Modulation and Disciplinementioning

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Section: Amplificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Amplificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Amplificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Modulation Harms and The Google Home

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Cohen

2021

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“…6 Indicamos ao leitor o trabalho de Allex Williams (2015), "Control Societies and Platform Logic", e de Yuk Hui (2015), "Modulation after Control", para o cotejo e aprofundamento destas noções. No Brasil, um trabalho recente e de muita qualidade foi realizado pelo Laboratório de Tecnologias Livres (LabLivre), da Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), citado na bibliografia e no corpo deste texto.…”

Section: Deleuze E As Sociedades De Controleunclassified

Disciplina e controle: liames, distanciamentos, questões

Freitas

Lemos

2020

PRACS: Rev. Elet. Hum. C. Ciên. Soc. UNIFAP

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O artigo propõe o esclarecimento de alguns importantes termos que estão presentes no trajeto filosófico de Michel Foucault e Gilles Deleuze, no período que se enquadra em meados dos anos setenta, no caso do primeiro; e, no início dos anos noventa, no caso do último. São eles: a noção de poder disciplinar; poder soberano; e sociedades de controle. O intuito disto é não apenas entendê-los, mas mostrar ao leitor como estão, de certa maneira, intrínsecos, apontando também seus eventuais distanciamentos, para, acima de tudo, provoca-lo a uma crítica contemporânea do capital. Nossa metodologia inclui, basicamente, a utilização de obras e cursos de Michel Foucault e Gilles Deleuze, bem como da análise de alguns de seus principais comentadores.

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Tourism Decolonization, Geopolitics, and Degrowth: A Theoretical Case for Tourism Sustainability in East Africa

Maingi,

Gowreesunkar

2024

Tourist Behaviour and the New Normal, Volume II

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Modulation after Control

Cited by 50 publications

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Modulation Harms and The Google Home

Modulation Harms and The Google Home

Disciplina e controle: liames, distanciamentos, questões

Tourism Decolonization, Geopolitics, and Degrowth: A Theoretical Case for Tourism Sustainability in East Africa

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