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Preliminary Map for the Digestive Control Society

What Deleuze missed in his Postscript to the Control Society is the fact that everything is edible now, including and especially politics.  Control is a threat up until you can eat it, in which case it becomes subordinated as the working class - the digested proletariat.  The creates scarcity in the communities that have not been digested creating a sort of mystique around inedibility.  I have the latest Prado bag - big deal, I am inedible. Digestive Control creates a solar-anal imperative to excessive amounts of waste production and photosynthetic absorption.  Eat as much as you can and shit as much as you can.  Thus the greatest horror for the Post-Control Society is to run out of food.  Once you have nothing left to eat, you no longer produce proletariat, and no one can do work any longer. The world of things presents a world that Digestive Ontology fails to recognize as real.  If you are not real, you have no voice: hence the current crisis and complete absence of robo