ABSTRACT As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, governments across the globe are enforcing various Information Systems (IS)-based systems of control that, we contend, augur a new organisation of our freedoms, raising concerns related to issues of surveillance and control. Presented as ways to curb the immediate progression of the pandemic, these systems have progressively appertained our lives, thus becoming the new “normal”. Drawing from the concept of “control societies” developed by Deleuze, we explore how, through a logic of “the end justifies the means”, these new systems are being normalised. Beyond Deleuzian studies that describe modern society as a control society, we contend that Deleuze provides useful insights to critically analyse the progressive “normalization” of new forms of digitally enabled control, as well as the implications of this normalisation process. The analysis of this normalisation process highlights the ways in which the current pandemic and its response (i.e., new forms of technological control) are “sociomaterially constructed” through a historic, discursive, and material process. Contributing to MIS research on privacy and surveillance, this reflection on the sociomaterial construction of the control society and of its digitally enabled control systems during the current COVID-19 crisis paves the way to possible forms of resistance and solutions.

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目的是否证明手段合理？大流行时代的信息系统和控制社会

摘要 随着 COVID-19 大流行的蔓延，全球各国政府正在实施各种基于信息系统 (IS) 的控制系统，我们认为，这预示着我们自由的新组织，引发了与监视和控制问题相关的担忧。作为遏制大流行的直接进展的方法，这些系统逐渐融入我们的生活，从而成为新的“常态”。借鉴德勒兹提出的“控制社会”的概念，我们探讨了如何通过“最终证明手段合理”的逻辑，使这些新系统正常化。除了将现代社会描述为控制社会的德勒兹研究之外，我们认为德勒兹提供了有用的见解来批判性地分析新形式的数字化控制的渐进“正常化”，以及这种规范化过程的影响。对这一正常化过程的分析突出了当前大流行及其应对（即新的技术控制形式）通过历史、话语和物质过程“社会物质构建”的方式。在当前的 COVID-19 危机期间，对控制社会及其数字化控制系统的社会物质结构的这种反思为 MIS 对隐私和监视的研究做出了贡献，为可能的抵抗形式和解决方案铺平了道路。