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Vigilar y castigar: Nacimiento de la prisión

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Quizás hoy provoquen vergüenza nuestras prisiones. El siglo XIX se sentía orgulloso de las fortalezas que construía en los límites de las ciudades y, a veces, en el corazón de éstas. Se complacía en esa nueva ben9nldad que reemplazaba los patíbulos. Se maravillaba de no castigar ya los cuerpos y de saber corregir en adelante las almas. Aquellos muros, aquellos cerrojos, aquellas celdas figuraban una verdadera empresa de ortopedia social. Quienes robaban eran encarcelados, también aquellos que violaban o mataban.

¿De dónde proviene el curioso proyecto de encerrar para corregir, disciplinar, controlar, que traen consigo los códigos penales de la época moderna? ¿Es una herencia de las mazmorras medievales? Más bien, una tecnología novedosa: el desarrollo de un conjunto de procedimientos de coerción colectiva para dividir en zonas, medir, encausar a los individuos y haceros a la vez "dóciles y útiles". Vigilancia, ejercicios, maniobras, puntajes, rangos y lugares, clasificaciones, exámenes, registros: una manera de someter los cuerpos, de dominar las multiplicidades humanas y de manipular sus fuerzas, que fue desplegándose en los hospitales, en el ejército, las escuelas y los talleres: la disciplina.

El Siglo XIX inventó, sin duda, las libertades, pero les dio un subsuelo profundo y sólido: la sociedad disclplinaria, de la que aún dependemos.
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Release dateMay 15, 2014
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Michel Foucault

One of the most important theorists of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault's (1926-1984) many influential books include Discipline and Punish, The Archeology of Knowledge, The History of Sexuality, and The Discourse on Language.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    The few chapters I read for school were interesting. Might come back to read the whole book sometime.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Foucault is a historian, at least a his-story-ian. and this is an interesting story. take the soul out of the prisoner, the atrocities of the execution, the discipline and punishment pre 1847 when peasants enjoyed the spectacle of watching a man have his limb's ripped apart for killing another man. this is good writing.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Foucault relates developments in prisons and punishment with larger trends in culture and civilization. He argues that ancient regime punishment of the body evolved into punishment of the mind or spirit. He relates these changes to capitalism.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    not the easiest read, I grant you, but indispensible history (both social and as a business) of "corrections"
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Interesting to see how penal/educational/employment systems which seem obvious now developed. Although I think this happened in a more haphazard, unplanned way than what the author proposes.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    It's Foucault! It's about power. This time he explores the ideas of power through looking at the hisotry of discipline--usually state but sometimes civil. The relationship of the individual to the society and the government/soverign is explored form the age of toruture on.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Prison is the symbol of a certain idea of society and of the mechanics of power inside it.From the excessive and bloody justice of the ancien régime to a disciplinary society in which ongoing examinations take place every time and the judges-controllers are a lot more than we think.Foucault gives to the prison also a political contingence but tells us also that soon or later it will not be necessary anymore, for the widening of punish/reward connections with the consequent fainting of punishments' intensity will make detrimental to mantain structures for the total submission and recostruction of individuals such as jails.The only problem of this intelligent and challenging book is that Foucault seems shy to share his opinion on the issue; nearly as if he's afraid of 'abuse' of his power and influence over the reader.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    It’s easy to understand why Foucault was such an influential theorist; his explanation of the use of information collection and standardization to work on the body, in places from prisons to hospitals to armies to schools, offers a powerful theoretical apparatus with lots of applications across countries, times, and situations. That said, if you’ve read summaries elsewhere, it’s not clear to me that you need to read this book (cf. Bowling Alone). One very striking thing to me, since I also just finished Matt Taibbi’s The Divide, was how much these two books described the exact same thing: the extension of categorization, surveillance, and manipulation to poor people, who gain “identity” by being classified and recorded. By contrast, rich people gain identity (and even acclaim) by being above the law—that’s not Foucault’s focus, but he mentions it. Thus the modern army and modern capitalism go hand in hand.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Indeholder "The body of the condemned", "The spectacle of the scaffold"."The body of the condemned" handler om ???"The spectacle of the scaffold" handler om ???Foucault's syn på fængsling og henrettelse.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    This was an interesting book, but very dry and over my head at times. There were times I feel like you have to know about French history and French prisons to fully get this book. I think I made mistake reading this book first. I wouldn't recommended it unless you have a strong interest for philosophy, criminology, and/or French history. It's obvious Foucault was channeling Marx, Rousseau, and de Sade in this book (he never talks about de Sade, but it reminded me of de Sade's philosophy). I'm still interested in reading more of Foucault.