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‘Boys Calling Girls, Boys Calling Boys’ ‘Boys Calling Girls, Boys Calling Boys’
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‘Right across the Country in a Straight Line’ ‘Right across the Country in a Straight Line’
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‘We’ve Been a Motorola Family for 20 Years’ ‘We’ve Been a Motorola Family for 20 Years’
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‘The New Assemblages Will Also Contain Effectors’ ‘The New Assemblages Will Also Contain Effectors’
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‘A State of Permanent Mobilization for the Defense of this Universe’ ‘A State of Permanent Mobilization for the Defense of this Universe’
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‘The Subliminal Kid Moved In’ ‘The Subliminal Kid Moved In’
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‘All Other Weapons Were Discarded’ ‘All Other Weapons Were Discarded’
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8 ‘The Very Form of Perverse Artificial Societies’: The Unstable Emergence of the Network Family from its Cold War Nuclear Bunker
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Published:December 2016
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Deleuze and Guattari's ‘perverse artificial societies’ were the random ones thrown up by Paris’s unstable telephone system in the 1960s and 1970s, where crossed lines, misdialed numbers and bad connections created an entire phantom network of voices: ‘a society of unknowns’. Just as the ‘nuclear family’ was seen as a strategic element in the Cold War, dispersed into suburban enclaves of self-contained domestic units, so the ‘network family’ of today, distributed across social media now finds itself being defined as a strategic element in a warring online cyber community: its elusive and fragmented presence regarded as both a threat and a defence position. What this shift reveals is that the nuclear family was not as stable as it seemed and that the networked family is more tightly defined and structured according to what is perceived to exist outside of it. From this perspective it is easier to understand today’s panics over online security and ‘whistle blowers’ against state intervention in private communication, who are frequently presented by the mainstream media as domestically unstable – the chapter ends with a discussion Edward Snowden, Bradley/Chelsea Manning, and Julian Assange, together with the psychosexually aggressive language and imagery of Anonymous.
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