The Partially Examined Life (Citizens): (Protected Content)
Discussing Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (1975), parts 1, 2 and section 3 of part 3. Are we really free? Kings no longer exert absolute and arbitrary power over us, but Foucault’s picture of the evolution from torture and public executions to rehabilitative, medical-style incarceration is not so much a triumph of liberty but a shift to more subtle but more pervasive exertions of power. With guest Katie McIntyre. Learn more.
End songs: “The Zoo Song” and “Solitary Drama,” both from 1991, released on the Mark Lint album Black Jelly Beans & Smokes.
