Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter XI : Revolution By Consciousness, p. 301
“The disappearance of public executions marks therefore the decline of the spectacle; but it also marks a slackening of the hold on the body.”
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Michel Foucault
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Discipline and Punish
Source: Discipline and Punish (1977), Chapter One, The Spectacle of the Scaffold
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