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“He is seen, but he does not see; he is the object of information, never a subject in communication”*…
Plan of Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon prison was drawn by Willey Reveley in 1791 (source)We’ve looked before at digital regimes that seem a little too close for comfort to Jeremey Bentham‘s notion of the Panopticon. Surveillance has continued to intensify. 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox bring us up to speed…
It’s nearly impossible not to be watched these days. It can start right at home with your neighbors and their Ring cameras—a company that sold fear to the American public and is now integrating AI to turn entire neighborhoods into networked, automated surveillance systems.
Head out a bit further and you’ll likely be confronted by Flock’s network of cameras that not only track license plates, but also track people’s movements with detailed precision. And as the Trump administration raids cities across the U.S. for undocumented immigrants, tech giants like Palantir are powering tools for ICE, including one called ELITE that helps the agency pick which neighborhoods to raid.
To better understand what exactly we’re looking at in this dystopian hellscape, 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox joined r/technology for an AMA.
Understandably, people are worried about violations of their privacy by companies and the government. And many wonder, is there any way to go back once we’ve released all this AI-powered, surveillance tech?…
The (lightly edited for clarity) transcript is a bracing– but critically-important– read: “From Flock to ICE, Here’s a Breakdown of How You’re Being Watched,” @jasonkoebler.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy and @josephcox.bsky.social in @404media.co.
* “Bentham’s Panopticon [at top] is the architectural figure of this composition. We know the principle on which it was based: at the periphery, an annular building; at the centre, a tower; this tower is pierced with wide windows that open onto the inner side of the ring; the peripheric building is divided into cells, each of which extends the whole width of the building; they have two windows, one on the inside, corresponding to the windows of the tower; the other, on the outside, allows the light to cross the cell from one end to the other. All that is needed, then, is to place a supervisor in a central tower and to shut up in each cell a madman, a patient, a condemned man, a worker or a schoolboy. By the effect of backlighting, one can observe from the tower, standing out precisely against the light, the small captive shadows in the cells of the periphery… He is seen, but he does not see; he is the object of information, never a subject in communication. – Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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As we feel seen, we might recall that it was on this date in 2000, that the dot.com bust effectively began. Between 1995 and its peak five days days earlier, on March 10, 2000, investments in the Nasdaq Composite stock market index rose from 1,006 to 5,048—a 400% gain fueled by the conviction that the internet would render every prior valuation framework obsolete. It did not.
On March 13, 2000, news that Japan had once again entered a recession triggered a global sell off that disproportionately affected technology stocks. Soon after, Yahoo! and eBay ended merger talks and the Nasdaq fell 2.6%; still, the S&P 500 rose 2.4% as investors shifted from strong performing technology stocks to poor performing established stocks. The market held steady on the 14th. Then, on this date 26 years ago, the broader market begin to drop… and kept dropping. By the end of the stock market downturn of 2002 (the “second chapter” in the correction that began in 2000), stocks had lost $5 trillion in market capitalization since the peak. At its trough on October 9, 2002, the NASDAQ-100 had dropped to 1,114, down 78% from its peak. It took 15 years for the Nasdaq to regain its March, 2000 peak.
#autocracy #Bentham #business #commerce #culture #Foucault #history #JeremyBentham #MichelFoucault #panopticon #politics #privacy #surveillance #Technology -
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#RenéeGood is dead. An #ICE agent shot her three times through her car window in #Minneapolis. Video shows the agent had time to step away—instead he drew his weapon and fired. This wasn’t self-defense. It was execution.
Philosopher Harry Binswanger traces the philosophical chain: https://hbletter.com/trumps-gestapo-is-now-murdering-protestors/
ICE exists because we philosophically and politically destroyed the concept of #IndividualRights.#Bentham called #rights “nonsense upon stilts” 20 years after #Kant. That became settled doctrine. Without a defensible theory of rights grounded in reality, we got the #Progressive movement’s #collectivism, then the xenophobia that built ICE, and now we have federal agents executing protesters in the street.
ICE has no legitimate function—it exists to grab and deport people, operating with arbitrary force. "The nature of an action follows from the nature of the entity that acts.” ICE's nature is thuggery wrapped in the language of #LawEnforcement.
But there’s also a commercial-political chain that made this possible: government agencies contract with private #surveillance companies to bypass #FourthAmendment protections. What the government can’t collect directly, it purchases from #DataBrokers and information services.
The technical infrastructure—databases, APIs, real-time intelligence platforms—gets built by engineers who think they're just solving technical problems. That infrastructure feeds into operations that put agents on Minneapolis streets with intelligence they couldn’t legally gather themselves.
This didn't have to happen.
Rights theory didn't have to lose to #utilitarianism and Kantian duty. We didn’t have to allow commercial surveillance to become a Fourth Amendment bypass. But we did, and now 37-year-old Renée Good is dead because an agent felt empowered to approach her car, try her door handle, and shoot when she tried to leave.
The horror isn’t just that Renée Good died. It’s that her death was philosophically, politically, and technically inevitable once we abandoned individual rights and built the infrastructure to enforce #collectivist #immigration policy at scale.
#ReneeGood #philosophy #politics #USpol #USpolitics #SurveillanceState #SurveillanceCapitalism
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#RenéeGood is dead. An #ICE agent shot her three times through her car window in #Minneapolis. Video shows the agent had time to step away—instead he drew his weapon and fired. This wasn’t self-defense. It was execution.
Philosopher Harry Binswanger traces the philosophical chain: https://hbletter.com/trumps-gestapo-is-now-murdering-protestors/
ICE exists because we philosophically and politically destroyed the concept of #IndividualRights.#Bentham called #rights “nonsense upon stilts” 20 years after #Kant. That became settled doctrine. Without a defensible theory of rights grounded in reality, we got the #Progressive movement’s #collectivism, then the xenophobia that built ICE, and now we have federal agents executing protesters in the street.
ICE has no legitimate function—it exists to grab and deport people, operating with arbitrary force. "The nature of an action follows from the nature of the entity that acts.” ICE's nature is thuggery wrapped in the language of #LawEnforcement.
But there’s also a commercial-political chain that made this possible: government agencies contract with private #surveillance companies to bypass #FourthAmendment protections. What the government can’t collect directly, it purchases from #DataBrokers and information services.
The technical infrastructure—databases, APIs, real-time intelligence platforms—gets built by engineers who think they're just solving technical problems. That infrastructure feeds into operations that put agents on Minneapolis streets with intelligence they couldn’t legally gather themselves.
This didn't have to happen.
Rights theory didn't have to lose to #utilitarianism and Kantian duty. We didn’t have to allow commercial surveillance to become a Fourth Amendment bypass. But we did, and now 37-year-old Renée Good is dead because an agent felt empowered to approach her car, try her door handle, and shoot when she tried to leave.
The horror isn’t just that Renée Good died. It’s that her death was philosophically, politically, and technically inevitable once we abandoned individual rights and built the infrastructure to enforce #collectivist #immigration policy at scale.
#ReneeGood #philosophy #politics #USpol #USpolitics #SurveillanceState #SurveillanceCapitalism
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CW: -uspol
#RenéeGood is dead. An #ICE agent shot her three times through her car window in #Minneapolis. Video shows the agent had time to step away—instead he drew his weapon and fired. This wasn’t self-defense. It was execution.
Philosopher Harry Binswanger traces the philosophical chain: https://hbletter.com/trumps-gestapo-is-now-murdering-protestors/
ICE exists because we philosophically and politically destroyed the concept of #IndividualRights.#Bentham called #rights “nonsense upon stilts” 20 years after #Kant. That became settled doctrine. Without a defensible theory of rights grounded in reality, we got the #Progressive movement’s #collectivism, then the xenophobia that built ICE, and now we have federal agents executing protesters in the street.
ICE has no legitimate function—it exists to grab and deport people, operating with arbitrary force. "The nature of an action follows from the nature of the entity that acts.” ICE's nature is thuggery wrapped in the language of #LawEnforcement.
But there’s also a commercial-political chain that made this possible: government agencies contract with private #surveillance companies to bypass #FourthAmendment protections. What the government can’t collect directly, it purchases from #DataBrokers and information services.
The technical infrastructure—databases, APIs, real-time intelligence platforms—gets built by engineers who think they're just solving technical problems. That infrastructure feeds into operations that put agents on Minneapolis streets with intelligence they couldn’t legally gather themselves.
This didn't have to happen.
Rights theory didn't have to lose to #utilitarianism and Kantian duty. We didn’t have to allow commercial surveillance to become a Fourth Amendment bypass. But we did, and now 37-year-old Renée Good is dead because an agent felt empowered to approach her car, try her door handle, and shoot when she tried to leave.
The horror isn’t just that Renée Good died. It’s that her death was philosophically, politically, and technically inevitable once we abandoned individual rights and built the infrastructure to enforce #collectivist #immigration policy at scale.
#ReneeGood #philosophy #politics #USpol #USpolitics #SurveillanceState #SurveillanceCapitalism
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CW: -uspol
#RenéeGood is dead. An #ICE agent shot her three times through her car window in #Minneapolis. Video shows the agent had time to step away—instead he drew his weapon and fired. This wasn’t self-defense. It was execution.
Philosopher Harry Binswanger traces the philosophical chain: https://hbletter.com/trumps-gestapo-is-now-murdering-protestors/
ICE exists because we philosophically and politically destroyed the concept of #IndividualRights.#Bentham called #rights “nonsense upon stilts” 20 years after #Kant. That became settled doctrine. Without a defensible theory of rights grounded in reality, we got the #Progressive movement’s #collectivism, then the xenophobia that built ICE, and now we have federal agents executing protesters in the street.
ICE has no legitimate function—it exists to grab and deport people, operating with arbitrary force. "The nature of an action follows from the nature of the entity that acts.” ICE's nature is thuggery wrapped in the language of #LawEnforcement.
But there’s also a commercial-political chain that made this possible: government agencies contract with private #surveillance companies to bypass #FourthAmendment protections. What the government can’t collect directly, it purchases from #DataBrokers and information services.
The technical infrastructure—databases, APIs, real-time intelligence platforms—gets built by engineers who think they're just solving technical problems. That infrastructure feeds into operations that put agents on Minneapolis streets with intelligence they couldn’t legally gather themselves.
This didn't have to happen.
Rights theory didn't have to lose to #utilitarianism and Kantian duty. We didn’t have to allow commercial surveillance to become a Fourth Amendment bypass. But we did, and now 37-year-old Renée Good is dead because an agent felt empowered to approach her car, try her door handle, and shoot when she tried to leave.
The horror isn’t just that Renée Good died. It’s that her death was philosophically, politically, and technically inevitable once we abandoned individual rights and built the infrastructure to enforce #collectivist #immigration policy at scale.
#ReneeGood #philosophy #politics #USpol #USpolitics #SurveillanceState #SurveillanceCapitalism
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#year1789 (1/15) :
- Introduction aux principes de morale et de législation de Jeremy #Bentham
- Royaume catholique France Navarre Ancien Régime : rumeurs conspiratrices + crise financière + nouvelle bourgeoisie + Lumières -> Louis 16/Necker souhaitent réformes -> convoque à Versailles états généraux = assemblée extraordinaire Nobles/Clergé/Tiers-Etat dont nombre de députés doublés soutenus par Necker = 1 200 députés -> «cahiers de ... -
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I don’t sing because I am happy; I’m happy because I sing.
— William #James
"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I #know? 2. What #ought I to do? 3. What may I #hope?"
— Immanuel #Kant
[67] Κάθε τμήμα της ύλης μπορεί να συλληφθεί σαν ένας κήπος γεμάτος φυτά ή σαν μια λίμνη γεμάτη ψάρια. Αλλά κάθε κλάδος ενός φυτού, κάθε όργανο ενός ζώου, κάθε σταγόνα των σωματικών του υγρών είναι επίσης ένας παρόμοιος κήπος ή μια παρόμοια λίμνη.
— Gottfried Leibniz - #Μοναδολογία
[67] Each portion of matter can be conceived as like a garden full of plants, or like a pond full of fish. But each branch of a plant, each organ of an animal, each drop of its bodily fluids is also a similar garden or a similar pond.
— Gottfried #Leibniz - #Monadology
He that begins to #live, begins to #die.
— Francis Quarles, Hieroglyphics
#Death, like #birth, is a #secret of #Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, IV, 5
🇬🇷 Ζήσε και άσε τους άλλους να ζήσουν.
🇬🇧 Live and let live.
🇩🇪 Leben und Leben lassen.“People ‘have an effect upon’ one another: Not by virtue of their nature, but rather by virtue of motivations brought forth through mutual understanding.”
— [Edmund Husserl, Basic Problems of Phenomenology, p. 172]
#Law is concerned with #freedom, the worthiest and holiest thing in man, the thing man must know if it is to have obligatory force for him.
— [#Hegel’s Philosophy of #Right, § 215 – Ethical Life / Civil Society / Administration of Justice / Determinate Law] [at: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/pr/prcivils.htm]
“No #morality can be founded on #authority, even if the authority were #divine.”
— A. J. #Ayer, Essay on #Humanism
All #punishment is mischief. All punishment of itself is evil.
— Jeremy #Bentham, Principles of #Morals and #Legislation
Έτσι γίνεται φανερό, ότι τα προβλήματα της πολιτικής επιστήμης είναι και προβλήματα της
πολιτικής αγωγής και των πολιτικών και πολιτισμικών αξιών του κάθε #πολίτη.— Κοσμάς Ψυχοπαίδης – Εισαγωγή στην Πολιτική Επιστήμη (παραδόσεις)
#Κομμουνισμός - «μια ένωση στην οποία η ελεύθερη ανάπτυξη του καθενός [ατόμου] είναι η προϋπόθεση για την ελεύθερη ανάπτυξη όλων».
— #Marx & #Engels, Manifesto (1848)
#Communism - “an association in which the free development of each [individual] is the condition for the free development of all.”
— #Marx & #Engels, Manifesto (1848)
“Στην #αναρχία δε θα φτάσουμε ούτε σήμερα, ούτε αύριο, ούτε ποτέ. Στην αναρχία θα πορευόμαστε σήμερα, αύριο και για πάντα.”
— Errico #Malatesta
“#Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established , an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.”
— Friedrich #Engels & Karl #Marx - The German Ideology, 1845
Σήμερα η αναρχία είναι θυμός, θανάσιμο μίσος και αιώνιος πόλεμος ενάντια σε όλους τους καταπιεστές και τους εκμεταλλευτές που υπάρχουν πάνω στη γη• είναι η απαράγραπτη διεκδίκηση των καταπιεσμένων, είναι το σύμφωνο συμμαχίας τους, η πολεμική κραυγή τους˗ ανελέητος πόλεμος όσο στη γη θα υπάρχει ακόμα έστω και ένα αφεντικό, έστω και ένας εκμεταλλευτής. Αναρχία σημαίνει ακατάπαυστη, αδιάκοπη εξέγερση, ενάντια σε κάθε κατεστημένη τάξη• πόλεμος ενάντια σε κάθε κρατική αρχή, που διεξάγεται με όλους τους δυνατούς τρόπους και με όλες τις δυνατές μορφές: με το γραπτό λόγο και κάθε άλλο μέσο έκφρασης, με τις πράξεις περιφρόνησης και εχθρότητας και προπάντων με τα όπλα.
— Είναι από το κείμενο του Ιταλού αναρχοκομμουνιστή Κάρλο #Καφιέρο “Επανάσταση”, Αναρχία και Κομμουνισμός.
«Το κεφάλαιο είναι νεκρή εργασία, που σαν βρικόλακας, ζει μόνο ρουφώντας το αίμα της ζωντανής εργασίας. Και όσο πιο πολύ ζει, τόσο πιο πολύ αίμα ρουφάει.»
— Karl #Marx
Αρθρον 1. - Ο σκοπός οπού απ’ αρχής κόσμου οι άνθρωποι εσυμμαζώχθησαν από τα δάση την πρώτην φοράν, δια να κατοικήσουν όλοι μαζί, κτίζοντες χώρας και πόλεις, είναι δια να συμβοηθώνται και να ζώσιν ευτυχισμένοι, και όχι να συναντιτρώγονται ή να ρουφά το αίμα τους ένας.
— #Ρήγας #Βελεστινλής, “Τα Δίκαια του Ανθρώπου”
«ΑΝΑΡΧΙΑ ΣΗΜΑΙΝΕΙ ΜΗ ΒΙΑ, μη κυριαρχία ανθρώπου σε άνθρωπο, μη επιβολή βιαίως της βούλησης ενός ή περισσοτέρων στους υπολοίπους. Είναι μόνο μέσω της εναρμόνισης των συμφερόντων, μέσω της εθελούσιας συνεργασίας, της αγάπης, του σεβασμού, της αμοιβαίας ανοχής, είναι μόνο με την πειθώ, το παράδειγμα, τη μεταδοτικότητα και το αμοιβαίο όφελος από την επιείκεια που μπορεί και πρέπει να θριαμβεύσει η αναρχία, δηλαδή μια κοινωνία αδελφών ελευθέρως αλληλέγγυων, η οποία θα εξασφαλίζει στους πάντες την μέγιστη ελευθερία, τη μέγιστη ανάπτυξη, τη μέγιστη δυνατή ευημερία»
— Ε. #Μαλατέστα
"The consistent #anarchist, then, should be a #socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat."
— Noam #Chomsky - In Daniel Guérin, #Anarchism: From Theory to Practice, 1970
"[…] Την δήμευσιν δεν την φοβείται αυτός που δεν έχει τίποτε, εκτός εάν έχης ανάγκην από αυτά τα σχισμένα κουρέλια μου και τα ολίγα βιβλία μου, που αποτελούν όλην την περιουσίαν μου. Την εξορίαν δεν την εννοώ, εγώ που δεν περιορίζομαι εις ένα τόπον, και δεν έχω ιδικόν μου ούτε το μέρος που τώρα κατοικώ, και κάθε μέρος είναι ιδικόν μου όπου και αν ευρεθώ ή μάλλον, κάθε μέρος είναι του Θεού, όπου εγώ είμαι ξένος και περαστικός. […]"
— Μέγας Βασίλειος
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of #patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble #war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
— Albert #Einstein
Ο κομμουνισμός όπως τον έμαθα από τον Μαρξ: 1) "ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΚΑΘΕΝΑ ΣΥΜΦΩΝΑ ΜΕ ΤΙΣ ΙΚΑΝΟΤΗΤΕΣ ΤΟΥ, ΣΤΟ ΚΑΘΕΝΑ ΑΝΑΛΟΓΑ ΜΕ ΤΙΣ ΑΝΑΓΚΕΣ ΤΟΥ" 2) Συνεργασία των παραγωγων/καταναλωτων με σκοπο να καλυψουμε τις αναγκες μας και να ευημερησουμε ΟΛΑ με τον ΜΙΚΡΟΤΕΡΟ δυνατό μόχθο (και χρονο) ...ετσι ωστε να εχουμε αφθονο ελευθερο χρονο για να καλλιεργησουμε τις ΑΙΣΘΗΣΕΙΣ μας, το νου μας και τις (διαπροσωπικές) σχεσεις μας.
Communism as I learned it from Marx:
1) "FROM EACH ACCORDING TO THEIR ABILITIES, TO EACH ACCORDING TO THEIR NEEDS" 2) Cooperation between producers/consumers with the goal to meet our needs and for ALL of us to prosper with the LEAST possible toil (and time)... so that we have plenty of free time to cultivate our SENSES, our mind, and our (interpersonal) relationships.
Der Kommunismus, wie ich ihn von Marx gelernt habe:
1) "JEDER NACH SEINEN FÄHIGKEITEN, JEDER NACH SEINEN BEDÜRFNISSEN" 2) Zusammenarbeit zwischen Produzenten/Konsumenten mit dem Ziel, unsere Bedürfnisse zu decken und dass WIR ALLE mit dem GERINGSTMÖGLICHEN Aufwand (und Zeit) gedeihen... damit wir ausreichend Freizeit haben, um unsere SINNE, unseren Geist und unsere (zwischenmenschlichen) Beziehungen zu pflegen.
«Η ανακάλυψη, η δημιουργία και η ικανοποίηση νέων αναγκών που προκύπτουν από την ίδια την κοινωνία· η καλλιέργεια όλων των ιδιοτήτων του κοινωνικού ανθρώπου, η παραγωγή αυτών σε μια μορφή όσο το δυνατόν πιο πλούσια σε ανάγκες, επειδή είναι πλούσια σε ιδιότητες και σχέσεις—παραγωγή που είναι το πιο ολικό και καθολικό δυνατό κοινωνικό προϊόν, γιατί, για να λάβει την ικανοποίηση με πολύπλευρο τρόπο, πρέπει να είναι ικανός για πολλές απολαύσεις, επομένως να καλλιεργηθεί σε υψηλό βαθμό - είναι επίσης μια συνθήκη παραγωγής που βασίζεται στο κεφάλαιο . . . Η ανάπτυξη ενός συνεχώς διευρυνόμενου και πιο ολοκληρωμένου συστήματος διαφορετικών ειδών εργασίας, διαφορετικών ειδών παραγωγής, στο οποίο αντιστοιχεί ένα συνεχώς διευρυνόμενο και συνεχώς εμπλουτιζόμενο σύστημα αναγκών». #Grundrisse, σελ. 409.
"The discovery, creation and satisfaction of new needs arising from society itself; the cultivation of all the qualities of the social human being, production of the same in a form as rich as possible in needs, because rich in qualities and relations—production of this being as the most total and universal possible social product, for, in order to take gratification in a many-sided way, he must be capable of many pleasures, hence cultivated to a high degree—is likewise a condition of production founded on capital . . . The development of a constantly expanding and more comprehensive system of different kinds of labour, different kinds of production, to which a constantly expanding and constantly enriched system of needs corresponds." Grundrisse, p. 409.
“Freedom
[in the sphere of necessity] can consist only in this, that socialized
man, the associated producers, govern the human metabolism with nature
in a rational way, bringing it under collective control instead of being
dominated by it as a blind power” (Marx, [1894] 1981:959).The capitalist gives back to the worker a part of his own surplus
labour in the form of an /avance, /for which he must reimburse the
capitalist not merely with an equivalent, but with surplus labour.
[MECW 29: 37]“The power that each individual exercises over
the activity of others or over social wealth exists in him as the owner
of /exchange values/, of /money/. He carries his social power, as also
his connection with society in his pocket” (Marx 1986:94).“It is a characteristic feature of labour which posits
exchange-value [value] that it causes the social relations of
individuals to appear in the perverted form of a social relationship
between things” (Marx 1970:34)....υπάρχουν δομές βίας που λένε στους ανθρωπους να σωπάσουν...
...there are structures of violence telling people to shut up...
— David #Graeber
Έτσι: Η #αστυνομία είναι #γραφειοκράτες με #όπλα. Αν το καλοσκεφτείτε, αυτό είναι ένα πραγματικά έξυπνο κόλπο. Γιατί όταν οι περισσότεροι σκέφτονται την αστυνομία, δεν τη θεωρούμε ως #επιβολή των κανόνων. Τους θεωρούμε σαν να #καταπολεμούν το έγκλημα και όταν σκεφτόμαστε το «έγκλημα», το είδος του εγκλήματος που έχουμε στο μυαλό μας είναι το βίαιο έγκλημα. Παρόλο που, στην πραγματικότητα, αυτό που κάνει κυρίως η αστυνομία είναι ακριβώς το αντίθετο: ασκεί την απειλή της βίας σε καταστάσεις που διαφορετικά δεν θα είχαν καμία σχέση με αυτήν.
“So: #Police are #bureaucrats with #weapons. If you think about it, this is a really ingenious trick. Because when most of think about police, we do not think of them as #enforcing regulation. We think of them as #fighting crime, and when we think of "crime," the kind of crime we have in our minds in violent crime. Even though, in fact, what police mostly do is exactly the opposite: they bring the threat of force to bear on situations that would otherwise have nothing to do with it.”
― David #Graeber
But what can function as an archetype in a fragmented society?
― [Raoul Vaneigem - Basic Banalities: http://library.nothingness.org/articles/all/all/display/10]
It should not be forgotten that hierarchical power is inconceivable without transcendence, without ideologies, without myths.
― [Raoul Vaneigem - Basic Banalities: http://library.nothingness.org/articles/all/all/display/10]
"All becoming is a criminal revolt from eternal being and its price is death."
[...] Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone, justified in everyone's eyes by divine or natural law, the right of privative appropriation is objectified in a general illusion, in a universal transcendence, in an essential law under which everyone individually manages to tolerate the more or less narrow limits assigned to his right to live and to the conditions of life in general. [...]
― [Raoul #Vaneigem - Basic Banalities: http://library.nothingness.org/articles/all/all/display/10]
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@quakers ich bin auf ein entwas verstöhrenden #Potcast gestosen, in dem behauptet wird, das Eastern State Penitentiary in #Philadelphia sei von #Quäker erdacht worden. Genannt wird auch Michel #Foucault. Aber hat der wirklich Bezug auf dieses #Gefängnis genommen? Ich denke nein. Er bezig sich auf J. #Bentham . Beteiligt euch gerne am #faktencheck . https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/was-quaeker-fuer-gerechte-strafe-halten-eastern-state-penitentiary-philadelphia-dlf-0298a38c-100.html