Societies of Control, p.6-7 (A Diagram) *

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"Man* [*This article is about adult [developed] human males. For humans in general, see Human. For the word "man", see Man (word). For the island, see Isle of Man. For other uses, see Man (disambiguation). "Manhood" redirects here. For other uses, see Manhood (disambiguation). "Men" redirects here. For other uses, see Men (disambiguation). [Wikipedia]] 


is no longer man [[SEM] The hermeneutic code can be found in the ways  Man is articulated and the position and meaning that it relies on. Wikipedia’s use of their disambiguation link (“for other uses, see…”) subverts meaning, yet at the same time, closes off meaning. The tool shows the unstable and multiple meanings of abstract concepts such as Man, while simultaneously attempting to provide a stable identity to Man the signifier.] enclosed, [[HER] Man as we had once 'known' him has changed ("Man is no longer man enclosed"). Man, in this iteration, functions as a referencial code. Since we no longer 'know' what man was (if we ever really knew) or in what ways he was enclosed, the text sets up, through the use of a semic [SEM] code, a new and unstable identity. [QST] Man is no longer enclosed, but is he open, or somewhat ambiguously not not enclosed? If we rely on antithetical codes, does not this slippery positionality that the text posits (Man is, but is notquite) complicate the very possibility? ]
 but man in debt. It is true that 

connotation]

capitalism [
has retained as a constant
the extreme 

poverty 

of three quarters of humanity, [[ANT] Just as “man” is marked by debt, so are the “3/4 of humanity,” situated as an antithesis, marked and disciplined by a regime of visibility and reiteration. It is “man,” marked by debt, whose position is reliant on the ‘too poor’ or ‘too numerous’ for its denotative meaning. [QST] Is not the three quarters also marked—Third World, Fourth World, developing, and even marked by the debt of structural adjustment? Why do these spaces become reconstituted as a site for battle, as filled with potential, yet always already marked by that which relies on its opposition? In what ways does denotation, that which references the sign, attempt to depoliticize and make equal hierarchies of meaning, whose existence, while plural, is produced in and through a particular discourse?

[ANT: ANTITHESIS]] too poor for debt***, [http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/facts/hipc.htm] [[CINE] Bamako (2006) puts the IMF/World Bank on trial. [CINE: CINEMATIC

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too numerous for confinement [http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/05/21/us/21fencegraphic.ready.html]: control [The "relative failure to impose order [does not] mean that the dominant are any less powerful; on the contrary: it only means that the effectivity of their resources and forms of exercise of power is uncertain. Stronger still, it is precisely because of this uncertainty that order is consciously conceived as a task, a problem, an obsession.." ("In The Realm of Uncertainty", 177).]
will not only have to deal with erosions of frontiers**** [http://www.wri.org/publication/frontiers-of-finance][[REF] [DIS] Does the excess of desire drive capitalism, both materially and epistemologically (the ultimate mastery of each and every frontier)? If, through repetition, the frontier is yielded and produced as new, constructed as that which needs to be consumed, then control thus works through the proliferation and construction of unending desire(s). Although the asymptotic border of the frontier is never fully mastered, pleasure is invoked in its unending (re)production, an unending penetration of and construction of the frontier. If pleasure can also be thought of as “in excess,” in what ways can this excess become unpleasureable? In what ways does this excess of pleasure speak death (death as the ultimate frontier)? Has the unconscious been penetrated by late capitalism? Or had it always been penetrated?  [DIS: DISCOURSE: PSYCHOANALYTIC]  [REF: REFERENTIAL]]
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 ] but with the explosions [[DIS]  "When responding in a timely fashion to events that stupefy, it is important not to respond stupidly, reactively, with a reflexive negation that merely reproduces the dialectical terms of Wedom and Theydom. Rather, one has to deploy tactics that display a certain ironic knowledge about how the vector works, and which attempts to reach that everyday interzone where, in the wake of the event, boundaries seem to dissolve, and irony finds its intemperate time" (Wark, 273).  [DIS: DISCOURSE: TACTICAL]] within shanty towns or ghettos." [

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"The Indian thus returned to the ghetto, in the glass coffin of the virgin forest, again becomes the model of simulation of all the possible Indians from before ethnology... Of course, these savages are posthumous: frozen cryogenized, sterilized, protected to death, they have become referential simulacra, and science itself has become pure simulation..."
... "We have all become living specimens in the spectral light of ethnology, or of antiethnology, which is nothing but the pure form of triumphal ethnology, under the sign of dead differences, and of the resurrection of differences. It is thus very naive to look for ethnology in the Savages or in some Third World -- it is here, everywhere, in the metropolises, in the White community, in a world completely cataloged and analyzed, then artificially resurrected under the auspices of the real, in a world of simulation, of the hallucination of truth, of the blackmail of the real, of the murder of every symbolic form and of its hysterical, historical retrospection -- a murder of which the Savages, noblesse oblige, were the first victims, but that for a long time has extended to all Western societies."
- The Precession of Simulcra, p.8-9 [MEME:MEME]  [DIS:DISCOURSE: POSTMODERNISM]]