Text: Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

Guides: Amalia & Amber

Place: Bushwick

Michel Foucault's acclaimed analysis of Western penal systems draws attention to the techniques developed by states — through prisons, but also through schools and hospitals — to exert control over the body. 

Foucault tells a story of "normalization": the process by which ideas and conditions come to seem natural and, eventually, invisible. We'll think about the ways that techniques of normalization can serve to justify and obscure state power. And we'll seek out modes of attention that can help citizens and communities to resist normalization — and thereby see the state (and the world, and each other) continually anew.

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