http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2005/12/08/the-progressive-and-dispersed-installation-of-a-new-system-of-domination/ How do people use products, systems and environments? How can designers influence interaction? How can we design for sustainable behaviour? Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:44:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2005/12/08/the-progressive-and-dispersed-installation-of-a-new-system-of-domination/#comment-7642 Architectures of Control in Design » Some links: miscellaneous, pertinent to architectures of control Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:56:13 +0000 http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/?p=28#comment-7642 [...] Ulises Mejias on ‘Confinement, Education and the Control Society’ - fascinating commentary on Deleuze’s societies of control and how the instant communication and ‘life-long learning’ potential (and, I guess, everyware) of the internet age may facilitate control and repression: “This is the paradox of social media that has been bothering me lately: an ‘empowering’ media that provides increased opportunities for communication, education and online participation, but which at the same time further isolates individuals and aggregates them into masses —more prone to control, and by extension more prone to discipline.” [...] [...] Ulises Mejias on ‘Confinement, Education and the Control Society’ - fascinating commentary on Deleuze’s societies of control and how the instant communication and ‘life-long learning’ potential (and, I guess, everyware) of the internet age may facilitate control and repression: “This is the paradox of social media that has been bothering me lately: an ‘empowering’ media that provides increased opportunities for communication, education and online participation, but which at the same time further isolates individuals and aggregates them into masses —more prone to control, and by extension more prone to discipline.” [...]

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