Philosophy · 19 min
Discipline & Punish
By Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault's 'Discipline & Punish' reveals how modern power operates not through overt spectacle, but through subtle, pervasive disciplinary mechanisms embedded in institutions, shaping individuals into 'docile bodies' via surveillance and normalization.
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Philosophy
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19 min
What it is about
power dynamics, surveillance, panopticism
Who it is for
Best suited to listeners who want a clearer working understanding of power dynamics, surveillance, panopticism and better judgment in how they apply it.
The author
Michel Foucault brings a credible and useful lens to power dynamics, surveillance, panopticism, with enough subject command to make the book worth hearing.
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