Starting from Deleuze’s brief but influential work on control, the 11 essays in this book questions how contemporary control mechanisms influence, and are influenced by, cultural expression. They also collectively revaluate Foucault and Deleuze’s theories of discipline and control in light of the continued development of biopolitics

Acknowledgements Introduction. Control of What? Frida Beckman 1. Notes from an Investigation of ‘Control Society’ Gregg Lambert 2. Post– Mortem on Race and ControlNeel Ahuja 3. Periodising (With) ControlSeb Franklin 4. Subjects of Sovereign Control and the Art of Critique in the Early Modern Period Carin Franzén 5. Posthumanism, Social Complexity, and the Political: A Genealogy for Foucault’s The Birth of BiopoliticsCary Wolfe 6. ‘That Path is For Your Steps Alone’: Popular Music, Neoliberalism and BiopoliticsJeffrey T. Nealon 7. Cinema in the Age of ControlGregory Flaxman 8. Towards a ‘Minor’ Fascism: Panoptic Control and Resistant Multiplicity in TV’s SpooksColin Gardner 9. Species States: Animal Control in Phil Klay’s RedeploymentColleen Glenney Boggs 10. Control and a Minor LiteratureFrida Beckman 11. Philosophy and Control Paul Patton Notes on the ContributorsIndex