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From: ccw94@xxxxxxxxxx (Colin Wight)
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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 12:20:55 +0000
I would have thought that body belts and chains etc., would have been
distinctly unnecessary according to a Foucaultian anaylsis. A much too
repressive and materialistic use of power. Panopticanism requires little
other than self-restraint surely?
>Reflections on capital punishment: take a look at "The Blue Room" in Yale
>Review (just out or soon to be out); it is a chilling description of the Death
>House at Florence prison in Arizona by Joan Dayan; you'll hear echoes of
>Foucault in her stunning prose. The essay has been translated into German and
>that version should be out by June. She is presently working on a book-length
>study of "Chains."
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Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DA
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