Monday, November 30, 2009

Pieces...

this will be a kind of:

"prison-indigenous land-violation-occupation-rediscover-conscience and consciousness-crime and punishment-liberation-redepmtion kind of piece"


- Malavika Mohanan, friend/collaborator


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"There is also something that I came across today. Jeremey Bentham, great English philospher, came up with this extraordinary plan for a type of prison The Panopticon

"Morals reformed— health preserved — industry invigorated — instruction diffused — public burthens lightened — Economy seated, as it were, upon a rock — the gordian knot of the poor-law not cut, but untied — all by a simple idea in Architecture!"

What a quote! (upon a rock)

Here's more

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon"



- Jessica Joffe, friend/collaborator

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