hydrarchist writes: "This essay, which first appeared in L'Autre journal, no. 1 (May
1990), is included in the forthcoming translation of Pourparlers
(Paris: Editions Minuit, 1990), to be published by Columbia
University Press. It previously appeared in October #59, Winter 1992, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 3-7."

"Postscript on the Societies of Control"

Gilles Deleuze

1. Historical

Foucault located the "disciplinary societies" in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; they reach their height at the
outset of the twentieth. They initiate the organization of vast
spaces of enclosure. The individual never ceases passing from one
closed environment to another, each having its own laws: first the
family; then the school ("you are no longer in your family"); then
the barracks ("you are no longer at school"); then the factory;
from time to time the hospital; possibly the prison, the preeminent
instance of the enclosed environment. It's the prison that serves
as the analogical model: at the sight of some laborers, the heroine
of Rossellini's Europa '51 could exclaim, "I thought I was seeing
convicts."

hydrarchist writes:

"Revolutionary Action: Until Now"

A Discussion with Michel Foucault

Under the auspices of Actuel

MICHEL FOUCAULT: What is the most intolerable form of repression for those of you currently enrolled in a lycee [high school]:
family authority, the impact of the police on ordinary life, the
organization and discipline imposed by the lycee, or the passive role
encouraged by the press (and this may include a journal like Actuel)?

hydrarchist writes: This article was found on the excellent Class Against Class site.

The Working-Class Struggle
Against the Crisis:

Self-Reduction
Of Prices in Italy

Bruno Ramirez

(BRUNO RAMIREZ, was an editor of Zerowork, in which this article, written in February 1975, first appeared. This version is from Radical America Vol. 10 no. 4)

With an inflation rate of over 25%, widespread unemployment, and increasing repression, Italy's current economic crisis shows how far capital is willing to push its attack against the living conditions of the working class.