Rather, these events happen on a different level, in a plurality of non-places, and simultaneously. They are embedded in the protocols or scripts used by institutions to manage the delivery of services to the population. They are an implicit form of control embedded in communication forms. These changes are part of the changing status of status. What we are seeing here is yet another development.
Control societies seek to limit the very space of the possible.
Possibilities that may initially be sold to the population in terms of convenience, flexibility, and greater freedom, often accompanied by an argument to do with the democratisation of services and technology, can at the same time lead us into greater anonymity in relation to a system that is largely indifferent to us, unless motivated into action by shame or embarrassment or damage control . . While the flexibility to work away from the office or while in transit is a freedom for some, other stresses come with this freedom. The adage there is a time and a place for everything doesn t hold any longer. The overlap between work and leisure increases. It can become difficult to demarcate different parts of one s life.