Posted in Pilfering, blame, childlike on Jun 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Childlike- Usually childlike is used in a positive way, but Powers is childlike in the sense that he lacks foresight, perspective, and a grip on reality. He thinks only of the present. In jail, he forgets that he is about to be executed because people are smiling at him. He [...]
Posted in Personalization, Recompense, blame, conscience on Jun 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
Recompense- Ames repays people he steals from with other stolen goods. He does not elaborate on why he chooses to recompense certain people for their losses. Maybe he only repays people who know he stole from him so they won’t report him to the authorities, but still it seems like a stranger bartering system. Perhaps, [...]
Posted in blame, judge, spectacle on May 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
Spectacle- Foucault argues that as the “gloomy festival of punishment was dying out,” one of the first things to go was “the spectacle of punishment”. He uses the word spectacle to describe the public torture and execution of prisoners used until the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. What is particularly interesting about the word spectacle [...]
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