{"id":44697,"date":"2013-01-10T13:09:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T18:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=44697"},"modified":"2013-01-29T03:12:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T08:12:50","slug":"discipline-and-punish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/10\/discipline-and-punish\/","title":{"rendered":"Discipline and Punish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ohnofoucault.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44698\" title=\"ohnofoucault\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ohnofoucault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"611\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ohnofoucault.jpg 611w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ohnofoucault-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\":12y\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/images\/cleardot.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>One way or another, we&#8217;re all running away from Foucault. In this <a href=\"http:\/\/heylookatmygames.com\/ohno\/\" target=\"_blank\">distressing online game<\/a>, you can <em>actually run away from Foucault<\/em> with your fingertips, rather than by merely existing in society. It\u2019s scary, all but impossible, and totally futile. Well, of course; that\u2019s the whole point. But who, apart from some people I know back at my upstate New York small, progressive, liberal-arts college, would actually play it? Real life is punishment enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One way or another, we&#8217;re all running away from Foucault. In this distressing online game, you can actually run away from Foucault with your fingertips, rather than by merely existing in society. It\u2019s scary, all but impossible, and totally futile. Well, of course; that\u2019s the whole point. But who, apart from some people I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[9731,9730,6703,9729,494],"class_list":["post-44697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-bard-college","tag-futility","tag-lana-del-rey","tag-michel-foucault","tag-video-games"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Discipline and Punish by Arthur Holland Michel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 10, 2013 \u2013 One way or another, we&#8217;re all running away from Foucault. 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