Ep. 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment

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Discussing Michel Foucault’s Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (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. Read more about the topic.

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Running Time: 1 hr., 42 min. Recorded: December 14, 2011. Participants: Mark, Wes, Seth, Dylan, Katharine McIntyre

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