ENGC15H3 Lecture Notes - Panopticon, Jeremy Bentham, Pillory
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He starts with this graphic description of horrific torture on the body. 18th c 19th c moving from bodily torture to disciplining: precedence given to the soul . Soul: german historian ernst kantorowicz"s the king"s two bodies. Foucault inverts this with criminal: criminal"s non-carnal body has to be marginalized, has to be punished, this disciplining involve: Strict regulations situated in time and space. Exercises implemented there: other aspects come to mind: intention, for one. Premeditated what"s important going on in the mind of the criminal, beyond the body. A model died, her famous athlete boyfriend shoots her on valentine"s day. Her boyfriend said he"d shot her in self-defence, thinking she was a burglar. She wanted to work with people in trying to abolish. Foucault highlights the importance of how we have to gain knowledge: the accordance of power and knowledge. The prisoner through his body is subjected to certain measure in order to gain access to the truth.
