TY - JOUR AU - Raley, Rita AB - RITA RALEY In each apparatus we have to entangle the lines of the recent past and those of the near future: that which belongs to the archive and that which belongs to the present; that which belongs to history and that which belongs to the process of becoming; that which belongs to the analytic and that which belongs to the diagnostic. —Gilles Deleuze, “What Is a Dispositif?” (1992, 164) What if we were to allow for the concept of control—the focus of this special issue—as descriptive, one that designates a logic and regime of power that emerges in the wake of, or in tandem with, the entire apparatus of mid- twentieth century research in the computational, psychological, and biologi- cal sciences, and then ask, does control describe our moment? Or are we now living through a transition into a new episteme, a new kind of society, with its own economic and technological arrangements? What would such a proposition allow us to see and what forms of action would it both enable and demand? ONE Everything, everywhere, seems to be out of control. We do not need the polar bears, the doomsday preppers, or the global political news to precipitate TI - Out of Control JO - symploke DA - 2020-11-24 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-nebraska-press/out-of-control-bdScsl01YK SP - 163 EP - 180 VL - 28 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -