The chain-gang spectacle fused public torture ceremony with the path to prison
Evidence
The chain-gang, a tradition that went back to the time of the galley slaves, was still surviving under the July monarchy. The importance it seems to have assumed as a spectacle at the beginning of the nineteenth century may be bound up with the fact that it combined in a single manifestation the two modes of punishment: the way to detention unfolded as a ceremonial of torture. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 394
Categorization
- XREF: This transitional hybrid — torture ceremonial folded into the route to detention — parallels how the internalized panopticon overlays old and new modes of power in Oceania. — connects to: Public torture was spectacle designed to display sovereign power publicly — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 83; Convicts actively narrated and performed their own criminality in the spectacle — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 395
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Broader Connections
- Public torture was spectacle designed to display sovereign power publicly
#corroborates(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 83 - Convicts actively narrated and performed their own criminality in the spectacle
#expands(0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 395