POSTPANOPTICUM: METAMORPHOSES OF CULTURE CONTROL IN A DIGITAL SOCIETY Cover Image

ПОСТПАНОПТИКУМ: МЕТАМОРФОЗИ КУЛЬТУРИ КОНТРОЛЮ В ЦИФРОВОМУ СУСПІЛЬСТВІ
POSTPANOPTICUM: METAMORPHOSES OF CULTURE CONTROL IN A DIGITAL SOCIETY

Author(s): Inna Igorivna Kovalenko, Yuliia Vasylivna Meliakova, Eduard Anatoliyovych Kalnytskyi
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Social Norms / Social Control, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Національний юридичний університет імені Ярослава Мудрого
Keywords: social control; postpanopticum; information society; digitalization; power;

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of the peculiarities of control practices in the situation of «liquid modernity». The metaphor of the panopticon proposed by M. Foucaultis taken as a starting point. The characteristic features of the digital infrastructure of social control are considered. Features of banoptic and synoptic logic of tracking as post-panoptic forms of social control are shown. The flexibility and variability of control made possible by the latest digital technologies testify to a specifically new mode of power to humanrelations.