Discipline and PunishmentSteve FOUCAULT
Discipline and Punishment
by Steve FOUCAULT · first published 2021
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I wish people would move beyond 1984 and quote more Foucault's Discipline & Punishment [1]. There is a much deeper-rooted problem in society than mass surveillance or militarization of police. It's the question of why we all let this happen without any resistance. We accept and welcome our controllers. Foucault wrote about the effects of prisoner mindset in society in the 1960-70s. Our subjugation
on “The Criminalization of Everyday Life” ↗…agree that the others are intentionally obscurantist, but Foucault is not. I'd put him at about the level of Chomsky himself --- complicated, possibly wrong, but insightful and striving for clarity. "Discipline and Punishment" and "History of Sexuality" are short and clear. Foucault's basic idea of "power" is that one should pay less attention to the explanations and excuses that are given, and more attention to what actually…
on “Foucault in California” ↗quote more Foucault's Discipline & Punishment Foucault's style is (possibly deliberately) obtuse, and his knowledge of history dubious at best, per Keith Windschuttle's book The Killing of History: http://www.amazon.com/The-Killing-History-Theorists-Murderin... . It's the question of why we all let this happen without any resistance Because it's easy, because most of the time it doesn't affect
on “The Criminalization of Everyday Life” ↗…"Science" while retaining all the metaphysical baggage of christianity "truth, beauty, morality," etc. This is from Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, the argument from which was expanded in Foucault's Discipline and Punishment (the most widely read book from what most people would call "postmodernism"). >truth that is actually true, true in the old sense of corresponding to the reality of what is The so-called "correspondence…
on “India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces” ↗…opened... First, you're projecting. Second, it's not at all surprising that you're young enough to have first read Manufacturing Consent when you were "young". Third, books like Manufacturing Consent and Discipline and Punishment are primarily sociological. They do have some normative content, of course, but their primary goal is to explain how the world works. > It's called 'PR', it's used all day, every day by most companies…
on “Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism” ↗