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@jeffryhouse It's a broad list, so there had better be some specifics to make the case. They are definitely architectural and schematic Here are some of them…Permalink On twitter.com
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@jeffryhouse Now, Alford is right, contemporary prisons in the USA are nothing like this, but this was both the vision and practice of 19th century prison reformers.Permalink On twitter.com
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@jeffryhouse And it's the system at work in factory production. (Quotes from Pun Ngai's ethnography of factory work, which explicitly uses Foucault as a theoretical frame.)Permalink On twitter.com
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@jeffryhouse What's specific to the development of hospitals is laid out here… thefunambulist.net/editorials/foucault-episode-6-architecture-and-discipline-the-hospitalPermalink On twitter.com
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@jeffryhouse When I discuss all this with students, hospitals stick out as the places where they are sure that disciplinary society is in the service of unambiguous good.On twitter.com
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@jeffryhouse And on the one hand, we're talking about features of social organization that may be morally neutral: organized repetition is necessary to train the firing of muskets, playing of the cello, and performance of surgery.Permalink On twitter.com
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@jeffryhouse But we're also talking about systems of power. A hospital with powers of mandatory confinement may have very different impact depending on whether the "disease" is Ebola or homosexuality.Permalink On twitter.com