An Introduction to Schizoanalysis –
….Consider the example of surveillance: the Wikileaks’ Cablegate, the
Snowden Documents, the Afghanistan War Logs, the recent Panama Papers—if
massive leaks such as these are any indication, the present
construction of systematic thought alluded to by Reich operates in a
highly securitised and surveilled political climate—a diffuse matrix of
new information gathering algorithms, where our information is tracked
and then ordered into categories of acceptable or unacceptable
activities. We know that we are always being tracked—touch off enough
markers in Internet activity by going to certain sites or using certain
words and you will be placed on a ‘watchlist.’ Rather than being spurred
into anxiety by this unnerving realisation, the vast majority of us
‘choose’ to ignore it, to continue on with existence as ‘usual’ and as a
result, we tacitly give our endorsement to the notion that those who
are breaking the rules will be brought to ‘justice.’