#Societies of Control

[1000rh]

We are entering control societies that are defined very differently than disciplinary societies. Those who are concerned about our welfare no longer need, or will no longer need, places of confinement. The prisons, schools and hospitals are already places of permanent discussion. Wouldn't it be better to expand home visits by doctors? Yes, that is certainly the future. Workshops and factories are bursting at the seams. Wouldn't it be better to use more sub-contracting and working from home? Aren't there other ways to punish people than prison?

– Gilles Deleuze, “What is the Creative Act?” (1987)

[yakityyaku]

very funny (irritating) to me that everyone whined and yelled about stupid rainbow capitalism and how performative wokeness/allyship is a net bad we should all refuse to support and now like.

tumblr is doing nothing for pride and target isn't selling much (if any) of their pride collection offline except at certain stores (in democratic areas, basically) and build a bear has a much tinier collection than normal and all the actual pride stuff is on their "adult" website (not sure if it's in stores, but pride = adult is a hell of a message)

there are genuinely good criticisms for performative allyship in all its applications. it shouldn't be the only thing we expect from people and companies. but if all the shit I see being called performative stopped tomorrow then in terms of the LGBTQ+ community especially we just. wouldn't talk about queerness or queer issues or celebrate pride or do anything.

open your fucking eyes. we are very close politically to having gay marriage rolled back. now companies are basically being let off the hook to even make a miniscule effort (which matters to the people who don't have access to any other kind of support in their communities! which normalizes the community in public spaces!) because the only reaction they have gotten over the last few years are negative ones from BOTH sides.

we are so entrenched in discourse at all times for the sake of our OWN performance of who is the wokest and who is REALLY an ally or a good community member that we have basically handed over all the work of activists of the last several decades to the other side because we'd rather scream at each other over fucking chicken restaurants and shit than the real life backsliding that's happening.

and this goes for other shit too. feminism, poc rights, all of it.

also. trans rights aren't discourse and aren't just culture war arguments. in case any terfs think they can spin this to be antitrans.

[chameleon3]

masterlist of every robert sean leonard film i could find free on youtube bc i’m bored

Dead Poets Society

The Boys Next Door

Tape (2001)

My Best Friend is a Vampire

Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (just ethan hawke)

In the Gloaming

Married To It

A Painted House

Bluffing It (this one has a fucked up start and horrible quality but at least there’s baby rsl!)

A Glimpse of Hell

Safe Passage

Ground Control

Chelsea Walls

The Invention Of Love (play)

The Boys Next Door (if it’s not available where you live)

A Painted House (if it’s not available where you live)

Dead Poets Society (Google Drive) (special thanks to @moon-walkman!!!)

MAJOR shoutout to this playlist, which is where i sourced many of these :)

lmk if i missed any, i’m currently scouring youtube for more so i’ll update this as i find more!! (btw i haven’t watched most of these all the way through, just checked to make sure they actually have my darling boys in them so lmk if there are any issues!)

[kettle-bird]

You know that old myth about lemmings and cliffs? Dunno why it's been on my mind.

[deadpoetsandlivinglegends]

Something something every time Charlie isn’t fighting to be the center of attention, he is always looking around to others to gauge their reactions and silently observing them all something something he is searching for connection, to fit in and be loved but he doesn’t know how to ask for love so instead he gains their attention by acting out in ways he knows they’ll notice and tries to pretend their attention and love are the same thing

[shittysawtraps]

when your friend says “i’m becoming the joker,” reply, “well, i’m becoming jigsaw” to one-up them. do not elaborate on what this means

[inkyrainstorms]

Martian Stan AU - An Encounter

Spoilers for Chapter 4 :)

Comic under the cut!

…and this is why answering doors is a Bad Idea forever, kids. Take it from Ford.

Obligatory Tag list bc you all deserve to see Martian Stan for the Multimedia fic/au it is: @aroace-get-out-of-my-face @empressofsamoyeds @pinefamilycatsau @littlelilliana15 @pleasantartisanhottea

[shadystranger]

Im just saying that if sam was a girl dean'd have fucked her from the first episode

[1000rh]

While contemporary capitalism produces a ‘generalized control, it is nevertheless forced to preserve a minimum of degrees of freedom, creativity, and inventiveness in the domain of the sciences, technologies and the arts, without which the system would collapse in a kind of entropic inertia’. Just like the production of disparities or inequalities, the production of freedom is differential. Depending on the situations, activities, social groups and balance of forces at stake, there will be what Guattari defines as absolutely heterogeneous ‘coefficients of freedom’. The government of conducts will then be exercised through a modulation of coefficients of heterogeneity and coefficients of freedom.

– Maurizio Lazzarato, "Art, work and politics in disciplinary societies and societies of security" (2008) Link

[otherclawdeen]

spot the difference

[strawberrysamara]

"Kaidan Alenko is boring" WRONG. Kaidan Alenko is one of THEE characters of all time. He's Canadian, he's Schrodinger's man of colour, he's DOWN to fuck and still didn't manage to figure out that he's bisexual until his thirties, he killed a man as a teenager and almost caused a diplomatic meltdown bc of it, his tits are bigger than yours, he's constantly getting migraines, he has autism but doesn't know it AND he glows. What more could you want

[krumpkin]

I think it's important that we remember politicians will always be politicians 🤔

[metanarrates]

worth bringing up as sort of a corollary to my severance thoughts is that severance does an excellent job of showing that different forms of power & control (cult/corporation/family/government) tend to bleed and overlap and propagate in similar forms. in that particular vein, speaking as a cult survivor, it's worth saying specifically that it doesn't do much good to exceptionalize cults as a rare oddity of how societal power can sometimes take shape. lumon, though fictional, is a really good example of how those mechanisms of control exist in many forms throughout society and should be broken down and scrutinized when they do appear.

[slowburningechoes]

Behind-the-scenes of Tape (2001) with Robert Sean Leonard and director, Richard Linklater.

[linka-from-captain-planet]

"[Celene accepting Duke Remache's proposal of marriage, which would likely eliminate Gaspard's challenge to her rule] is worth considering," Briala said, interrupting Celene's thoughts. Celene glanced over to see that Briala was refilling her teacup, her eyes still downcast. "It is not." Celene took the elven woman by the shoulder and gently tilted up Briala's chin until those beautiful eyes met hers. "If I tie myself to some lord, it will be for more than good hunting grounds in the Deauvin Flats." Perhaps it was selfish. Perhaps it was a mistake in the Game, even. But Celene had lost enough of her own life to the Empire of Orlais already... as had Briala. Briala's gaze softened. "Majesty."

A favorite moment from The Masked Empire, encapsulating a lot of what I find so compelling about them, particularly the drive-by interruption by Celene's guilty conscience and how much of a colossal understatement "perhaps it was a mistake in the Game" turns out to be

[fatedroses]

No-one butts into Estinien's bromances and gets away with it.