Interiority Against Control - The Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics of Information Technologies through Deleuze and Confucianism

This monograph synthesizes Deleuze and Confucianism for a novel account of the good life at the dawn of a new epoch of power: control. It engages in both a broad survey of work on the current techno-political situation, while providing a response through an in depth analysis of Deleuze and Xunzi. It builds on and enters into debates in the secondary literature on both figures as well as on Foucault, Levinas, and Mozi, along with contemporary scholars of philosophy of technology, such as Shannon Vallor, Shoshana Zuboff, Bernard Stiegler, and Patrick Gamez. It appeals to students and researchers working with these thinkers as well as on the ethics and politics of technology, Confucianism, Mohism, and comparative philosophy generally.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The Exhaustion of Subjectivity.- Chapter 2: Control Come to Light.- Chapter 3: Interiority Beyond the Subject.- Chapter 4: Subjectivation.- Chapter 5: Group Cultivation Under Control.- Chapter 6: Machinic Phylum.- Conclusion: Finding Joy in the Forces that Shape Us.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Ardoline
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 12.05.2026
• EAN: 9783032162441
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3216244-1
• Illustrations: Approx. 200 p.
• Series: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Religionsphilosophie, Soziale und politische Philosophie, Technologie, allgemein, Philosophie der Mathematik, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of religion, Digital Ethics, Surveillance Capitalism, technology and politics, Foucault and technology, Levinas and technology, Confucianism and philosophy of technology, Subjectality and Deleuze, Revolutionary Mathematics, Reconsidering the Life of Power, AI and Deleuze, critical theory and chinese philosophy, Deleuze and comparative philosophy, Societies of Control, Xunzi and Deleuze, Subjectivation and philosophy, math and deleuze, Interiority and philosophy, Mohism and philosophy of technology, Deleuze and philosophy of technology