Discussing Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (1975), parts 1, 2 and section 3 of part 3.

Are we really free? Kings no longer exert absolute and arbitrary power over us, but Foucault’s picture of the evolution from torture and public executions to rehabilitative, medical-style incarceration is not so much a triumph of liberty but a shift to more subtle but more pervasive exertions of power.

Featuring guest participant Katie McIntyre, doctoral candidate at Columbia. #Philosophy #Foucault #Power #Discipline #Punish

Go to the blog: http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2012/01/11/episode-49-foucault-on-power-and-punishment/