OK ya se que dije que no iba a escribir sobre Foucault hasta despues que terminara el libro de Vigilar y castigar, pero.... me tope con esta cita, y la encontré tan buena que no pude resistir querer compartirla:
"If the law is supposed to define offenses, if the function of the penal apparatus is to reduce them, and if the prison is the instrument of this repression, then failure has to be admitted....(N)o doubt punishment in general is not intended to eliminate offenses, but rather to distinguish them, to distribute them, to use them... Penalty would then appear to be a way of handling illegalities, of laying down the limits of tolerance, of giving free rein to some, of putting pressure on others, of excluding a particular section, of making another useful, of neutralizing certain individuals and of profiting from others. In short, penalty does not simply 'check' illegalities; it 'differentiates' them, it provides them with a general 'economy'..."
Michel Foucault- Discipline and Punish (P. 271-272)
No quiero hacer este post algo muy largo y complicado (y cuando se trata de Foucault eso es difícil de hacer) asi que no voy a añadir nada mas por ahora y ya mismo vengo con otro post inspirado en Michel.
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