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În loc de închisoare
Cea mai evidentă manifestare a puterii constă în sistemul ei carceral, iar cea mai eficientă procedură a acestuia rezidă în supravegherea continuă, al cărei scop este acela de a modifica personalitatea deținuților, de a-i face docili. Astfel, de-a lungul istoriei recente, pedeapsa corporală a fost înlocuită cu una psihică, mult mai subtilă și de multe ori mai dură. Dar, așa cum observă Michel Foucault, lucrurile nu se opresc aici. Pe de o parte, închisoarea rămâne un loc în care delincvența se perpetuează, uneori chiar cu complicitatea supraveghetorilor înșiși, iar pe de altă parte, modelul tehnicilor disciplinare aplicate infractorilor a fost preluat în alte locuri în care se exercită controlul: școli, companii, spitale. Totul e vizibil, așadar, dreptul la intimitate e încălcat.
120 pages, Hardcover
Published May 1, 2022
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Michel Foucault
763 books6,469 followersPaul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationships between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels. His thought has influenced academics, especially those working in communication studies, anthropology, psychology, sociology, criminology, cultural studies, literary theory, feminism, Marxism and critical theory.
Born in Poitiers, France, into an upper-middle-class family, Foucault was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV, at the École Normale Supérieure, where he developed an interest in philosophy and came under the influence of his tutors Jean Hyppolite and Louis Althusser, and at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), where he earned degrees in philosophy and psychology. After several years as a cultural diplomat abroad, he returned to France and published his first major book, The History of Madness (1961). After obtaining work between 1960 and 1966 at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, he produced The Birth of the Clinic (1963) and The Order of Things (1966), publications that displayed his increasing involvement with structuralism, from which he later distanced himself. These first three histories exemplified a historiographical technique Foucault was developing called "archaeology".
From 1966 to 1968, Foucault lectured at the University of Tunis before returning to France, where he became head of the philosophy department at the new experimental university of Paris VIII. Foucault subsequently published The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969). In 1970, Foucault was admitted to the Collège de France, a membership he retained until his death. He also became active in several left-wing groups involved in campaigns against racism and human rights abuses and for penal reform. Foucault later published Discipline and Punish (1975) and The History of Sexuality (1976), in which he developed archaeological and genealogical methods that emphasized the role that power plays in society.
Foucault died in Paris from complications of HIV/AIDS; he became the first public figure in France to die from complications of the disease. His partner Daniel Defert founded the AIDES charity in his memory.
Born in Poitiers, France, into an upper-middle-class family, Foucault was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV, at the École Normale Supérieure, where he developed an interest in philosophy and came under the influence of his tutors Jean Hyppolite and Louis Althusser, and at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), where he earned degrees in philosophy and psychology. After several years as a cultural diplomat abroad, he returned to France and published his first major book, The History of Madness (1961). After obtaining work between 1960 and 1966 at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, he produced The Birth of the Clinic (1963) and The Order of Things (1966), publications that displayed his increasing involvement with structuralism, from which he later distanced himself. These first three histories exemplified a historiographical technique Foucault was developing called "archaeology".
From 1966 to 1968, Foucault lectured at the University of Tunis before returning to France, where he became head of the philosophy department at the new experimental university of Paris VIII. Foucault subsequently published The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969). In 1970, Foucault was admitted to the Collège de France, a membership he retained until his death. He also became active in several left-wing groups involved in campaigns against racism and human rights abuses and for penal reform. Foucault later published Discipline and Punish (1975) and The History of Sexuality (1976), in which he developed archaeological and genealogical methods that emphasized the role that power plays in society.
Foucault died in Paris from complications of HIV/AIDS; he became the first public figure in France to die from complications of the disease. His partner Daniel Defert founded the AIDES charity in his memory.
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February 10, 2021
Revenir pendant quarante pages sur les soi-disant alternatives à la prison, et en quoi, en définitive, elles ne font que prolonger ses principes en dehors de ses murs - le tout dans un style très accessible puisque dans l'oralité de Michel, c'est un régal. Faire également un crochet pour rappeler que toute mutation a ses raisons et si les critiques sur la prison émergent de plus en plus, et sont de plus en plus acceptées, c'est bien puisqu'aujourd'hui le pouvoir en place n'en aurait finalement plus tant besoin que ça. Revenir au fil d'entretiens fort intéressants sur la surveillance électronique, ainsi que la notion d'illégalisme.
July 18, 2023
On vit vraiment dans une ÉNORME saucisse mais le livre est un peu inutile quand on sait que c’est juste une retranscription écrite d’une conférence qu’on peut trouver sur YouTube
September 25, 2023
Llegit en català gràcies a l'editorial Manifest, aquesta és una obra xocant de Foucault. Si bé tinc començat Vigilar y castigar i tinc clara la noció d'il·legalisme d'una manera purament intuitiva, aquest text es pot llegir sense conèixer l'obra de Foucault en profunditat. Constitueix un capgirament de la funció de la presó a la societat, de l'apparatus legal estatal i, finalment, desacredita en certa manera el moviment abolicionista, en tant que la mera desaparició de la presó com a institució no comportaria més que l'extensió de les funcions d'aquesta a la resta del cos social. Molt i molt bo, i curt.
May 10, 2024
Foucault is Foucau'ing. Des grosses punchlines. Un renversement de cadre. La prison n'a pas échoué, elle remplit exactement son rôle. Les alternatives à la prison sont le prolongement de la prison, un contrôle sur le corps même jusqu'en dehors du lieu physique de la prison. Des p'tits entretiens pour contextualiser et ramener un peu de spices. J'aime
February 18, 2024
Foucault à l'oral c'est déjà plus clair !
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