snorwick’s Reviews > Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison > Status Update

Some terribly graphic accounts of pre-19th century corporal punishment (torture) right at the jump.

I'm coming in with a few ideas I want to explore, especially related to:
- State Power, Control, and monopoly on "legitimate violence."
- "free society" and "personal liberty" being ideas historically shaped by technical bottlenecks on surveillance and enforcement and what happens when AI dissolves those limits