Digital revolution and docile body

Articulating a Foucault-Deleuzian framework, this paper will explore the influences of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) that spurred the political uprisings of the Arab Spring, e.g., Egyptian and other recent democratic movements in Africa and the Middle East.  Illustrating my arguments with examples from the Facebook and Twitter communications on these uprisings, I will examine the potential of ICTs.  My focus is to show how Foucault’s model of  ‘docile body’ disciplined by power, and Deleuze’s model of ‘dominated body’ controlled by more fluid forces than disciplinary, when exposed to the liberative potential of  the digital revolution, unleashed their resistance against political subordination. Using interpersonal digital communications, e.g., Facebook, Twitter, etc., popular uprisings against authoritarian power have rejected the dehumanization of a people that resulted in an oppressed society of ‘Docile Bodies’.