Re: Panopticon Reversed

this suggests that what happened is not the norm - jailers are the same
everywhere in that they exploit the opportunity to exercise power over
inmates - they are not educated or indoctrinated into behaving properly but
are subject to a variety of external constraints - the most trained soldiers
are often the most brutal and aggressive
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lionel Boxer" <lboxer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 3:51 AM
Subject: RE: Panopticon Reversed


> The jailers were army reservists. Army reservists tend to meet for a few
> hours a week (recall George Bush's intermittent -virtually no existent -
> service in the air force reserve). These people are not indoctrinated to
the
> same degree as regular army people - one of the risks of employing army
> reservists in operations. It could be that they took photos of what they
> were doing to send to their friends at home. They are certainly not
subject
> to military gaze to the same degree as regular army solders.
>
> Definitely a subject that could be explored with Foucauldian concepts.
>
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> >From: "max neill" <meneilu2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Panopticon Reversed
> >Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 20:34:59 +0100
> >
> >
> >Any opinions on the apparent reversal of the 'Panopticon Effect' at Abu
> >Ghraib, where now the gaze of the world is focussed on the jailers?
> >
> >"We speak and the word goes beyond us to consequences and ends which we
had
> >not conceived of" Gadamer
> >
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