Discipline & Punish
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What’s it about?
A radical history of punishment that reveals how modern prisons—and schools, factories, and hospitals—use quiet surveillance to control us more deeply than the old spectacles of torture ever could.
You’ll learn
- Why prison reform is a myth
- How the panopticon shapes your behavior
- The hidden power of exams and rankings
- How discipline creates docile citizens