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"From being an art of unbearable sensations, punishment has become an economy of suspended rights."
Foucault illustrates how in a span of a century, the modern penal code usurped the age-old traditions of the body being the ultimate instrument of punishment. Why? Maybe because the act of the punishment "excited rhetoric" and remorselessly repeated the very crime it sought to punish.
— Feb 16, 2022 11:04PM
Foucault illustrates how in a span of a century, the modern penal code usurped the age-old traditions of the body being the ultimate instrument of punishment. Why? Maybe because the act of the punishment "excited rhetoric" and remorselessly repeated the very crime it sought to punish.
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Sukrit
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There has been a slow yet gradual trend from judging the crime to judging the soul and rationale of the person who committed it. This change has brought about with it a slew of "extra-juridical elements and personnel" like psychiatrists.
Foucault posits that this seemingly outward "leniency of punishment" has occurred to exploit the 'political economy' of the body i.e., through forced labor of prisoners.
— Feb 21, 2022 09:41PM
Foucault posits that this seemingly outward "leniency of punishment" has occurred to exploit the 'political economy' of the body i.e., through forced labor of prisoners.
Sukrit
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Despite modern world's outward commitment to a humane treatment of prisoners, remnants of past corporal punishments remain in current judicial practices.
The lives of prisoners is regimented and made worse with a physical impact on their body through rationing of food, sexual deprivation, solitary confinement etc., with the ideology that "the condemned man should suffer physically more than other men."
— Feb 19, 2022 10:53AM
The lives of prisoners is regimented and made worse with a physical impact on their body through rationing of food, sexual deprivation, solitary confinement etc., with the ideology that "the condemned man should suffer physically more than other men."
