Review: Social Behavior from Fish to Man (Phoenix Books) by Etkin William (1967-06-01) Paperback

Social Behavior from Fish to Man (Phoenix Books) by Etkin William (1967-06-01) Paperback by William Etkins
My rating: 3 of 5 stars



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Review: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Panopticon plague quarantine

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...all the authorities exercising individual control function according to a double mode; that of binary division and branding (mad/sane; dangerous/harmless; normal/abnormal); and that of coercive assignment, of differential distribution (who he is; where he must be; how he is to be characterized; how he is to be recognized; how a constant surveillance is to be exercised over him in an individual way, etc.). On the one hand, the lepers are treated as plague victims; the tactics of individualizing disciplines are imposed on the excluded; and, on the other hand, the universality of disciplinary controls makes it possible to brand the 'leper' and to bring into play against him the dualistic mechanisms of exclusion. The constant division between the normal and the abnormal, to which every individual is subjected, brings us back to our own time, by applying the binary branding and exile of the leper to quite different objects; the existence of a whole set of techniques and institutions for measuring, supervising and correcting the abnormal brings into play the disciplinary mechanisms to which the fear of the plague gave rise. ...

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