Andor, Season 1
MVC PATREON
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Prison Shows How Everyday Behavior Is Trained
- Chris Myers argues the prison scenes make visible how capitalist regimes train bodies and behaviors that are usually invisible in daily life.
- He links schooling and early childhood to learning how to sit, speak, and perform appropriate workplace comportment.
- The prison amplifies those rhythms: hands up, look forward—showing how perception and conduct are policed.
- This aesthetic and bodily training is part of an ideological apparatus that normalizes obedience.
- The point ties Cassian’s situation to broader lessons about how control operates culturally, not just physically.
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