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The sphere of control is undergoing a great but inconspicuous transition, which rapidly disconnects both normativity and the law from the social bond. The mediation of human relationships by institutions divides the world in fragments of monosemic interaction. Thus, the evaluative aspects of social control wither away and a new unintentional control takes over. This explains a series of dramatic changes, such as the substitution of collective rules and judgements by atomised tactics of escape and danger awareness. Norm and deviance increasingly merge into a desocialised alloy and disappear into the sphere of efficient postindustrial management. This development calls for a fundamental revision of our premises in studying deviance and sociality.