Category Archives: confession

foucault ch. 2

Posted on June 4, 2007 by aaust6yp

(this is an older post, but i had combined it with the pillars of salt post and went back to separat the two into two individual posts.) 1. pain– suffering and distress in varying degrees of severity takes on a … Continue reading →

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second foucault reading

Posted on May 29, 2007 by drummerboy

excessiveness – The most important factor of public punishment was the excessiveness that was employed whenever the punishment was enacted.  “excess of violence emploiyed is one of the elements of its glory:  the fact that the guilty man should moan … Continue reading →

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pillars of salt

Posted on May 29, 2007 by aaust6yp

1. participate-to take part. pillars of salt does a thorough job of showing the individual participants in public executions and punishment. one, or maybe just me, would at first think the only true participant in an execution would be the … Continue reading →

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