[lbo-talk] Abolition of prisons (Was: Angela...)

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 4 17:58:53 PDT 2009


To my recollection, neither Genet nor Foucault ever killed and ate anybody, this making them rather far removed from Dahmer.

--- On Sat, 4/4/09, Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote:
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> But then it gets even more interesting if you think back to
> Foucault and Genet. They are not too far removed from
> Dalmer, and they created the discursive methodology to
> deconstruct the prison industrial complex, as such. They
> started with their own knowledge and experience and
> understood the psychodynamics of how such nightmare
> constructions work.
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> Anyway, Angela Davis when through related experiences,
> constantly harassed, spied on, jailed, tried, escaped,
> underground .... so forth. So her own methods of discussing
> crime, punishment, legal and philosophical definitions and
> construction all converge in a closely related domain to
> Foucault, Genet...
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> So these theoretical foundations are encapsulated into the
> political demand to abolish the prison-industrial complex.
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