Societies of Control In Literature and Cinema

After reading Gilles Deleuze's intriguing article "Postscript on the Societies of Control" I couldn't help thinking of the literature and cinema embodiments of this idea. Even the former society of Discipline is enacted in books like "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. The masses of workers that are oppressed and surveyed by the one boss, trying to get as much efficiency out of the workers as possible within an enclosed space of, for example, a factory. He describes the machinery of "the recent disciplinary societies, equipped themselves with machines involving energy, with the passive danger of entropy and the active danger of sabotage." In terms of wages and production, disciplinary societies tries to get the highest production out of their workers while keeping their wages at the lowest possible point. In contrast, the societies of control have introduced the "corporation" where the employees are set against each other in a money hungry battle over who can produce the most, therefore earning the coveted bonus. The individuals are turned against one another instead of being amassed as one body of workers. In societies of control there are no longer individuals or masses, but passwords, codes, banks, samples, data etc. Marketing has become "the center or the "soul" of the corporation. We are taught that corporations have a soul, which is the most terrifying news in the world." These ideas expanded are embodied in movies like "Metropolis", "Gattaca", "iRobot", "Boiler Room", even the Disney flick "Wall-E". Though the comparisons may seem, juvenile and fictitious in their nature compared to the article, the comparison points to the fact that his claim, and the foreshadowing of institutions being over come by controlling societies, does have some truth to it, or at least is feared by society. In George Orwell's "1984", he takes this haunting idea and materializes it into the government seizing control of the entire society, including the "truths" people could believe. I know there are many more examples, like the "Hunger Games" series of books and Margaret Attwood's "The Handmaiden's Tale", which again deal with complete government control over society as opposed to the corporate or institutional "evil" Deleuze mainly refers too. I found this article fascinating, especially the comparison between past societies and today's from his perspective. I may have taken it all to literally or warped his ideas in my comparisons, however I still found this article extremely interesting.