Mobile Phones: Your phone company is watching you
The worldwide population has an estimated calculation of seven billion people, out of that seven billion people six billion have access to mobile phones. These shocking statistics form the basis of the controlled society we live in. Mobile phones enable digital communication monitoring and creates a world for us that is reliant on the construction of our identities. Our identities our formed by the information our phone companies collect from us each day when we use our mobile phones. We become a subject defined by information as the privacy of our lives diminishes. In the video above Malte Spitz documents the dark side of data and how are phone companies our controlling our identities, he explains how he produced a lawsuit against T-Mobile in order for them to send all the data they have collected on him since his subscription started. Once they reached a settlement Spitz was sent all the data collected on him through the post, this data was put on a CD for Spitz to view and once viewed Spitz had found that T-Mobile had been watching and documenting his every move. This marks the control of our society through surveillance and produces identities that are increasingly constructed through digital information and data age.
This form of surveillance culture draws upon Gilles Deleuze Control Societies and becomes a perfect model as to how Control societies are taking over from Disciplinary Societies. The society we live in is no longer ruled by precepts but a construction of our selves that is increasingly virtual and often more important then our real physical selves. Deleuze (1995 p180) comments
'In control societies, on the other hand, the key thing is no longer a signature or number but a code: codes are passwords, whereas as disciplinary societies are ruled (when it comes to integration or resistance) by precepts. The digital language of control is made up of codes indicating whether access to some information should be allowed or denied. We are no longer dealing with a duality of mass and individual. Individuals become 'dividuals' and masses become samples, data, markets or banks.' Deleuze (1995 p180)
Mobile phones become the construction of our selves which produces virtual identities. The enforcement of data collection by mobile phone companies dissolves our selves from individuals into 'dividuals' who are constantly controlled. As a society we are no longer being disciplined by governments but by the power of machines that formulate information based to produce certain behaviors and identities for us. Deleuze (1995 p180) comments
'Control societies function with a third generation of machines, with information technology and computers, where the passive danger is noise and the active, piracy and viral contamination. This technology is more deeply rooted in a mutation of capitalism.' Deleuze (1995 p180)
These 'dividuals' are caught up in a society that is controlled by the monitoring of mobile phones this is put in order to predict and pre-empt our virtual identities merely defining us as nothing but information amongst the masses.
Deluze, G. (1995). Postscript on control societies. In: Negotiations . West Sussex: Columbia University Press. p180.
This form of surveillance culture draws upon Gilles Deleuze Control Societies and becomes a perfect model as to how Control societies are taking over from Disciplinary Societies. The society we live in is no longer ruled by precepts but a construction of our selves that is increasingly virtual and often more important then our real physical selves. Deleuze (1995 p180) comments
'In control societies, on the other hand, the key thing is no longer a signature or number but a code: codes are passwords, whereas as disciplinary societies are ruled (when it comes to integration or resistance) by precepts. The digital language of control is made up of codes indicating whether access to some information should be allowed or denied. We are no longer dealing with a duality of mass and individual. Individuals become 'dividuals' and masses become samples, data, markets or banks.' Deleuze (1995 p180)
Mobile phones become the construction of our selves which produces virtual identities. The enforcement of data collection by mobile phone companies dissolves our selves from individuals into 'dividuals' who are constantly controlled. As a society we are no longer being disciplined by governments but by the power of machines that formulate information based to produce certain behaviors and identities for us. Deleuze (1995 p180) comments
'Control societies function with a third generation of machines, with information technology and computers, where the passive danger is noise and the active, piracy and viral contamination. This technology is more deeply rooted in a mutation of capitalism.' Deleuze (1995 p180)
These 'dividuals' are caught up in a society that is controlled by the monitoring of mobile phones this is put in order to predict and pre-empt our virtual identities merely defining us as nothing but information amongst the masses.
Deluze, G. (1995). Postscript on control societies. In: Negotiations . West Sussex: Columbia University Press. p180.
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