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Comment by socialcooling

5 years ago

Thank you for posting this, saves me the trouble :-)

I re-read Deleuze's three-page paper every year. It really describes things well.

> It really describes things well.

It definitely does, and he is scarily accurate in his analysis. I just re-read it myself, and stumbled over this part, which I certainly not anticipated in this form a few years back:

> For the hospital system: the new medicine "without doctor or patient" that singles out potentially sick people and subjects at risk, which in no way attests to individuation -- as they say -- but substitutes for the individual or numerical body the code of a "dividual" material to be controlled.

This is certainly an accurate description of the control mechanisms various states have put into place in the form of apps that enforce selective quarantine restrictions.

The socialcooling website really a great project! Important content presented concise and on-point, thank you for doing this!