OT: Celebrity advice
Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters
mertz at gnosis.cx
Thu Aug 28 02:17:36 EDT 2003
Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote previously:
|No, you're not taking the word "ultimately" far enough. First the
|state tries to get painful on your ass, so you resist. Then they get
|really violent, and still you resist.
Just as a question of biology, a person can be locked in handcuffs, or
in a metal cage, and be neither dead nor have the power to kill others.
This limit comes not out of the compromise and will-power of the
detained person, but simply out of physics and anatomy. In most
"ultimate" cases of state-sponsored violence, this is what happens...
not someone being killed.
Someone upthread recommended Foucault... I strongly second reading his
looks at "technologies of control."
Yours, Lulu...
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