[ssf] Excluding!

[Dan]

No, sorry, my mistake:  I only meant that, if 0742 turned out to be a 
moz pseudonym, then it could safely be removed because Mozaz would 
already have one identity on the list.

Dan
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@mparo wrote:

> (By the way I do object to excluding mozaz, since Dan has said "if
> nobody objects...").
>
> The Panopticon, terrible weapon of mass mental destruction.
>
> Michel Foucault analyzed in depth the nature of prisons and
> imprisonment, the concepts of locking up the poor and insane.
>
> And again in Power and the Norm, he refers to the relevance of
> "reporting to" (your hierarchical superiors):
>
> ........
> "3. A knowledge of Inquisition: the arrest of an individual was always
> accompanied by a report on his behaviour.
>
> In the 19th century, these techniques were revived according to two
> major principles:
> a. henceforth every agent of power became a means of developing
> knowledge; every agent of power had to send back to those from whom his
> power had been delegated, specific knowledge corresponding to the power
> he exercised. That is to say, any given order had to be matched by a
> report on the way that order had been carried out, the conditions which
> made its execution possible or impossible, the effects of the order and
> the possible corrections to be made. The chief constables, the attorney
> generals, were tied to this obligation of the report.
>
> "b. The Report as a form of the relations between Power and Knowledge.
> (If the report had existed before this, it was only as a periodic thing,
> as a custom. The systematising, the institutionalising of this report
> made by every agent of Power to his superior, is a phenomenon which has
> been as important in the history of the relations between Power and
> Knowledge as the invention of double-entry book-keeping was to the
> mediaeval economy, or the invention of feedback is for modern
> technology). Linked to the Report, a series of specific instruments was
> introduced for the purposes of abstraction and generalisation, for
> making estimates, statistical work, etc. Statistics became a State
> science, giving rise to something like Sociology. (Philosophical
> critiques of abstraction have often been produced, as has the history of
> the experimental method. It is time a history of the administrative
> extraction of Knowledge was drawn up).
>
> (......)
> "Psychiatry is another example. The power of the psychiatrist was
> institutionalised by the law of 1838 which, by making the psychiatrist a
> person who had to be consulted before anybody could be imprisoned, gave
> psychiatric knowledge a certain degree of Power."
>
>
> ___________
>
>
> R
>
> shimbo wrote:
>
>> robin&amparo wrote:
>>
>>> (Note that physical restraint includes mental coercion)
>>
>>
>>
>> "... the major effect of the Panopticion [1]: to induce in the inmate
>>  [2] a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the 
>> automatic functioning of power. So to arrange things that the 
>> surveillance is permanent in its effects, even so it is discontinuous
>>  in its action; that the perfection of power should tend to render
>> its actual exercise unnecessary; that this architectural apparatus 
>> should be a machine for creating and sustaining a power relation 
>> independent of the person who exercises it; in short [3], that the 
>> inmates should be caught up in a power situation of which they are 
>> themselves the bearers.
>>
>> To achieve this, it is at once too much and too little that the 
>> prisoner [2] should be constantly observed by an inspector; too 
>> little, for what matters is that he knows himself to be observed; too
>>  much, because he has no need in fact of being so. In view of this, 
>> Bentham [4] laid down the principle that power should be visible and 
>> unverifiable ..."
>>
>> Extract from Foucault's *Discipline and Punish*
>>
>> ( Translator's Note : Any closer translation of the French title of 
>> this book, *Surveiller et punir* have proved unsatisfactory on 
>> various counts. To begin with Foucault uses the infinitive, which, as
>>  here, may have the effect of an 'impersonal imperative'. Such a 
>> nuance is denied us in English. More seriously the verb 'surveiller' 
>> has no adequate English equivalent. Our noun 'surveillance' has an 
>> altogether too restricted and technical use. Jeremy Bentham used the 
>> term 'inspect' - which Foucault translated as 'surveiller' - but the 
>> range of connotations does not correspond. 'Supervise' is perhaps the
>>  closest of all, but again the word has different associations. 
>> 'Observe' is rather too neutral, though Foucault is aware of the 
>> aggression involved in any one-sided observations. )
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon [2] a madman, a patient, 
>> a condemned man, a worker or a school boy [3] did Foucault ever write
>>  anything 'in short' ? [4]
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham 
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