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The New Social Control - The Institutional Web, Normativity and the Social Bond (Paperback, New)
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The New Social Control - The Institutional Web, Normativity and the Social Bond (Paperback, New)
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Freedom and control are usually understood as opposites but what if
they merged? Consumption, management and administration are
everywhere. We are no longer supposed to depend on one other.
Instead, institutions and organizations form a dense web that
radically transform our past relations into ready-made, fragmented
norms. Thus, we are increasingly controlled not by coercion but by
competition and efficiency, aspiration and fear, to the point where
a new era in human sociality is starting. Moving beyond existing
critiques, Lianos argues that capitalism does not show itself as a
conspiracy of the powerful but rather manifests as the lowest
common denominator of our collective weaknesses. Control,
therefore, lies in practice and freedom lies in consciousness.
"This book transforms our view of social control. It is undoubtedly
the first work to expose a decisive social mutation and reveal to
us the logic and the disturbing power of a post-disciplinary, new
social control, just as Foucault masterfully revealed to us the
logic of disciplinary control." - Robert Castel, Ecole des hautes
etudes en sciences sociales.
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