“…throughout the social body, procedures were being
elaborated for distributing individuals, fixing them in space, classifying
them, extracting from them the maximum in time and forces, training their
bodies, coding their continuous behavior, maintaining them in perfect
visibility, forming around them an apparatus of observation, registration and recording,
constituting on them a body of knowledge that is accumulated and centralized.
the general form of an apparatus intended to render individuals docile and useful,
by means of precise work upon their bodies, indicated the prison institution, before
the law ever defined it as the penalty par excellence.”
--Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault, p. 231
But this is just a prediction. One of those reading skills I want my students to be able to do.
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