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From: Nathan Goralnik <rhizome85@xxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:39:34 -0700
> I don't think that Foucault gives an answer to the question of modern
> torture. in Discipline and Punish he is concerned about medieval PUBLIC
> torture, far different than that taking place in prisons. and i don't
think
> that modern regimes employ torture purely out of cruelty or because they
> haven't read bentham's panopticon. a more complete answer to the question
> might be found in elaine scarry's The Body In Pain. has anyone read it?
> what do you think?
Adam, wouldn't the sort of torture being discussed be a a practice of
supplice? After all, the public/private distinction being questioned here
seems to be fairly homologous to the public/private distinction you're using
to distinguish supplice from torture.
dunno
~Nate