panopticon implodes, details at 11

Catherine Driscoll catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au
Mon Nov 8 18:05:35 PST 1999


At 11:36 9/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
><http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-prison-audit.ht
ml>
>
>> Toll Records Aid in Audit of Prison Workers
>>
>> ALBANY, N.Y. -- For nearly a year and a half, state authorities
>> say, dozens of prison employees spent their workdays tending to
>> personal affairs and then falsified time sheets to cover their
>> tracks. The scheme might never have been uncovered, the authorities
>> say, had the employees not committed one minor blunder: using their
>> state-issued E-ZPasses [windshield-mounted toll-payment system]
>> and cellular phones wherever they went.
>
>the article says that the employees swapped 'EZPasses' in order to
>obscure who was doing what. so, o theorists, was that 'an act of
>resistance'?

of course. the question should be 'what resistance is it?'

Catherine



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