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Are Prisons Computers? with Ian Alan Paul

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What Is the Defining Shift in the Relationship Between Information and the Individual?

LZ Granderson: What would you say is the defining shift in the relationship between information when it comes to the shift away from, say, like a homopenalus to the homocriminalus? He says for Foucault discipline is particularly a system of governmentality that really is meant to increase economic efficiency. LZ: One of the central innovations of the panopticon isn't simply just this question of visuality, it allows for one prison guard to exert power over many prisoners. For Foucault, there's this intimate historical relationship between the means of control and the means of production," he says.

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