a compilation of revelations, questions, and muses i had while reading:
(from "torture")
*It's interesting that throughout this section, Foucault refuers to the procedure of execution as 'punishment,' or as the passive, post-tense, 'death' --never as killing or muder. Would this be ascribing morality..? A window into Foucault's sensibility as a writer/reporter of torture? He condemns it via complex, well rounded arguments, and maybe that's why he doesn't feel the need to call it murder...he does, however, seem to be a man to call a spade a spade...
*(Re: the trend of moving away from punishment as spectacle) UH, Foucault---what about punishment way post-18th century--like LYNCHINGS. Hel-looo?! The point of lynchings was, however, to degrade the victim back to the ages of deserved corporal punishment, and spectacle was absolutely a part of that. Where did the individual's culpability/body stand in lynchings? The body was considered contaminated, was target as much as the soul, which was either considered inherently corrupted or unsavable, or both...
*Evolving ways of including everyday people in the justice system ((LINK TO POST ABOUT THAT)) --jury vested with responsibility of a certain judicial culture vs. onlookers who may someday find themselves punished (deterrence)
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