Torture persists alongside rather than giving way to modern discipline
Evidence
Rejali believes that his book refutes what Foucault had to say about torture in Discipline and Punish. He maintains that torture does not give place to discipline in modern society, as Foucault claimed, but persists in a . — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 502
Categorization
- XREF: Direct challenge to Foucault’s Discipline and Punish thesis — a schema I know well and can weigh this against. — connects to: Enlightened progress remains entangled with domination and cruelty — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 200; Torture continuing abroad exposes civilization’s inhumane core