PREVIEW-Episode 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment
Summary: Discussing Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish (1975), parts 1, 2 and section 3 of part 3.<br> This is a 33-minute preview of our vintage 1 hr, 42-minute episode which you can buy at <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/product/ep-49-foucault/" target="_blank">partiallyexaminedlife.com/store</a> or <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2012/01/11/ep49-foucault-citizen/" target="_blank">get it for free</a> with PEL Citizenship (see <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/membership" target="_blank">partiallyexaminedlife.com/membership</a>). You can also purchase the full episode in the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/episode-49-foucault-on-power/id1044869572" target="_blank">iTunes Store</a>: Search for "Partially Danto" and look under "Albums."<br> Are we really free? Kings no longer exert absolute and arbitrary power over us, but Foucault's picture of the evolution from torture and public executions to rehabilitative, medical-style incarceration is not so much a triumph of liberty but a shift to more subtle but more pervasive exertions of power. <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2011/12/15/topic-for-49-foucault-on-power-and-punishment/">Read more about the topic and get the book</a>.<br> Featuring guest participant <a href="http://philosophy.columbia.edu/directories/student/katharine-mcintyre" target="_blank">Katie McIntyre</a>, doctoral candidate at Columbia.<br> End songs: Two short, stinky tunes from the <a href="http://marklint.com" target="_blank">Mark Lint</a> album, Black Jelly Beans & Smokes, "The Zoo Song" and "Solitary Drama," both from 1991.<br> If you enjoy the episode, please donate at least $1:<br> <br>
