Episode 30
E30: Foucault, /Discipline and Punish/, and voluntary panopticism, part 1
April 19, 202329m 37s
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Show Notes
Part 1 is a synopsis of Foucault's claim that the societal attitude toward punishment of criminals changed radically over a period of about 80 years, starting in the mid-1700s: from punishment as vengeance, to punishment as persuading the minds of many, to punishment as correcting the personality of one.
Books
- Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison, 1975
- C.G. Prado, Starting With Foucault (2/e), 2000
Random other stuff
- Brian Marick, "Artisanal Retro-Futurism Crossed with Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism" (text and video), 2009
- The environment of evolutionary adaptedness
- Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962
- N.W. Mogensen, "Crimes and Punishments in Eighteenth-Century France", 1977
- Ada Palmer, Too Like the Lightning, 2016
- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
- Kieran Healy, "Escaping the Malthusian Trap", an animated graph showing the relationship between the population of Britain and its GDP over time, illustrating the discontinuity caused by the industrial revolution.
- Wikipedia article about the cult horror movie "Cube"
Credits
The image is of Adam Smith's pin factory, possibly from Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (1751–1780). D. Diderot & J. d’Alembert.
Topics
foucaultphilosophypanopticism