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"carceral archipelago" (Discipline and Punish)

11/8/2020

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Again, from late-night reading of Foucault:  A Very Short Introduction ​by Gary Gutting (81):

"The most striking thesis of Discipline an Punish is that the disciplinary techniques introduced for criminals become the model for other modern sites of control (schools, hospitals, factories, etc.), so that prison discipline pervades all of modern society.  We live, Foucault says, in a 'carceral archipelago' (DP, 298)."

This conjures a clear image of the sites of discipline that we dodge or land upon in daily life, and the disciplinary strategies embodied at each location.  However, with time, it is clear that disciplinary strategies will create an archipelago of disciplinary strategies within a 'location' (i.e., food production, distribution, and sales).  Similarly, within schools, smaller sites of control that use different forms of control (i.e., provincial policy - district application - application within a school - application from classroom to classroom).
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