Tyson Frederick
Art 282b: Grad. Sem. In Contemp.
Art History: Empathy
Professor Anthony Raynsford
5/14/2012
Blog: Deleuze - Societies of
Control
It
is in great interest that we assess the power and informative device known as “space”. Spaces exist in many environments but are approached
in such a way that they take on certain “controlling” circumstances per
space. Gille Deleuze is looking at space
as it pertains to an enclosure of rules set down by a controlling body above
and beyond the space but passively imbued within. For each space is controlled in a certain way
that we step into the space with a presupposed set of rules and conduct to
follow by. These may have many effects
on the viewer or the occupier but it might be said that space can embody a
meaning or we can have empathy or attached transient feeling upon entering a
certain area or space. Deleuze is not emphasizing
the importance of the propositions within the space but by whom and for what
purpose these prepositions may be generated or come from in origin and how we
often misinterpret the meanings of spaces.
In
this reading, I am finding that the main retort against powers and systems of
control are that there is a coercive feeling of unacknowledged force in which
the operators and occupiers of a given space may not necessarily be aware of all
the conditions with which they work or for what circumstances they work. This reminds of the “alienation” and “injustice”
that ties to the worker and there space, the worker and there product, which is
re-appropriated, through current culture and social structure and belief in
capitalism, to that person which is called the “producer” rather than “laborer”
The “laborer” is being demoted as a means of production like a machine, yet the
laborer doesn’t benefit from the production the way the “capitalist” does and
thus is “cut-short” of what they actually deserve being either the object of
their creation or the result of their object created. The worker is viewed as a piece, even though
they are the sole responsibility for the creation of an object. This refers to the trickery of coercion and
space.
It
is hard to imagine that the structures and “molds” that we live within are
something else from what they seem. They
seem to be perfected structures to those with which project their idea, i.e.
the owners, the capitalists in control.
We may not like to believe that we live in a circumstance other than the
one we imagine ourselves to be in, but it is not impossible to believe that we
have been deceived through our senses, being they are limited in capacity. In the same case, those people that hold
their positions of power, slightly reinterpreted as a greater good, are in a
position of being deceived by their own actions, for they may not understand
anything more than their own behavior and structure they live within. Perhaps by looking at the true nature of
space, as something moldable, bendable and interpretable, we can come to a
better understanding of the way in which man, or the capitalist, promotes a
certain way of believing and thus resulting in a certain type of action.
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