SURVEILLANCE DEVICES IN THE CONTROL SOCIETY: THE PRODUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITY FROM SMARTPHONES
Subjectivity; smartphones; machinic servitude; cartography; algorithms; surveillance.
This present doctoral research presents a collection of theoretical considerations on mobile communication artifacts, smartphones, and the production of specific subjectivities to a surveillance device. The hypothesis is that this device bases itself on the observation of data generated by users with the objective to produce data conducive to the modulation of behavior. The proposal is to understand that social triggering derives from the relationship between entertainment provided by smartphones and the current surveillance, in which Deleuze (2000) appoints as a control society. The purpose is to find out how the manufacturing process of a specific subjectivity takes place (Guattari and Rolnik, 1999) that would modulate the individuals according to the logic of machinic servitude (Lazzarato, 2014). The understanding is that of that capitalism would prepare the ground for the production/modulation of specific subjectivities through the practicality and entertainment provided by artifacts which would be part of a more comprehensive distributed surveillance. The path proposed for the research is an inspired cartography according to Rolnik’s (2006) terms, in which it is possible to follow the traces of this subjectivity, not only through the perspective of individuals, but works of literature, film and the smartphones themselves and their data collection policies. In this way, the theoretical reference is based mainly on the work of Lazzarato (2014, 2006); Guattari (1992); Guattari and Rolnik (1999); Rolnik (2006); Deleuze (1988; 2000); Bruno (2013).