Classical Studies 2301A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Modern Age, Thyestes, Roman Republic

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Lecture 10, part 2 spectacle and surveillance: the perpetual penality that traverses all points and supervises every instant in the disciplinary institutions compares, differentiates, hierarchizes, homogenizes, excludes. Ancient: legal view/definition of crime: what is permitted and what is forbidden, acts are criminal or not, based on a particular set of laws. Modern: disciplinary view of crime: social constructionist view of crime. The examination transformed the economy of visibility into the exercise of power. Traditionally, power was what was seen, what was shown and what was manifested and, paradoxically, found the principle of its force in the movement by which it deployed that force. Those on whom it was exercised could remain in the shade; they received light only from that portion of power that was conceded to them, or from the reflection of it that for a moment they carried.

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