Link Roundup, 2019
Jun. 23rd, 2019 01:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelav- Michel Foucault pt. 1-
- Foucault is going to ask: is the penal system of the 1970’s really so different when you take a closer look at it? Do we exist in a modern, enlightened era where we’ve grown throughout history and learned the error of our ways and constructed a penal system that first and foremost has the aim of distributing justice and fairness? To Foucault, the goal of the modern penal system is not justice or fairness…the goal is through surveillance, normalization and examination to produce harmless, non-rebellious, working, tax-paying productive citizens who follow the rules and are satisfied with a life of conforming to the normalized standard of what it is to be a person handed down to them from above…in other words, docile, useful subjects that carry out the vision for what the future should hold given to them by the people in power.
- > mfw my first thought was ‘o hey that’s neat and weirdly accessible take on Foucault’
- > the second: ’……….Foucault is hella kinky’
- ( a coworker linked this neato series of podcasts, and i can tell i’ll be reading the backlog this hell week.)
- Foucault is going to ask: is the penal system of the 1970’s really so different when you take a closer look at it? Do we exist in a modern, enlightened era where we’ve grown throughout history and learned the error of our ways and constructed a penal system that first and foremost has the aim of distributing justice and fairness? To Foucault, the goal of the modern penal system is not justice or fairness…the goal is through surveillance, normalization and examination to produce harmless, non-rebellious, working, tax-paying productive citizens who follow the rules and are satisfied with a life of conforming to the normalized standard of what it is to be a person handed down to them from above…in other words, docile, useful subjects that carry out the vision for what the future should hold given to them by the people in power.
- I used to be alt-right
- one of the most *weirdly* wholesome / tentatively compassionate (and bleakly terrifying) comment threads I’ve seen. a shit ton of other folks chime in to talk about their slow indoctrination (and ways out).
- (edit: goddamn, Deeyah Kahn is a legend.)
- The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News
- “Something that’s deeply interesting, I think, to both of us,” Gackle said, “is the way in which one can arrive at a nonviolent reaction to somebody by having greater awareness of the—” He paused. “I’ll say violence in oneself. By which I mean the kind of agitation and activation that is causing people, including ourselves, to react in a kind of fight-or-flight way that leads to misunderstanding, conflict, and, ultimately, Internet flame wars. This seemingly trivial stuff, about people getting mad at other people on the Internet, is actually tied to this much deeper and more fascinating process of what goes on between people and what goes on in oneself.”
- “It’s another opportunity for us to influence the system, by exemplifying the kind of patterns of discussion that we would like to see,” Bell said. “We just want to constantly set an example.”
- Shot Analysis: Sword In The Stone
- Absolute scale corrupts absolutely
