Panopticism as an element of disciplinary politics

srikakulamlo siima kondaki

@kuffir

to impose a common purely brahminical identity on extremely diverse peoples is pure tyranny. india itself is the biggest fascist idea, ever.

2:58 AM · Nov 28, 2015

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srikakulamlo siima kondaki

@kuffir

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Jan 16

india has one of the lowest prison populations (as share of total population), or incarceration rates in the world.. much lower than france. and if the undertrial population was excluded, it would be much much lower..

srikakulamlo siima kondaki

@kuffir

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@kuffir

would someone, wise and sensitive, born in india have written about 'the birth of the prison'? he would most likely write about the birth of caste society, like babasaheb did.. using the foucauldian lens, can you understand india.. 20th century. france. another planet.

12:38 PM · Jan 16, 2021·Twitter 

srikakulamlo siima kondaki

@kuffir

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Jan 15

now contrast this with the function of panopticism as an element of disciplinary politics of the governments in the west.. as observed by foucault. the regime of institutions and codes wherein every subject feels watched by the government, monitored constantly

srikakulamlo siima kondaki

@kuffir

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@kuffir

about the pointlessness of bruiting foucault around in all the central brahmin universities..? he's late 20th century. french. you're confused mimic men.

11:28 PM · Jan 15, 2021·

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srikakulamlo siima kondaki

@kuffir

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Jan 17

nehru and indira started a number central psus, industries to banks to insurance to condom making companies etc to employ brahmins and a few upper castes from every state to consolidate and expand a bit the ruling class created by british india,

srikakulamlo siima kondaki

@kuffir

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Jan 17

.. but in the last thirty years, congress and bjp are building more and more central educational institutions, universities in every region (where children of the brahmins and upper castes of the earlier phase would gain knowledge of 'indian-ness')..

srikakulamlo siima kondaki

@kuffir

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Jan 17

this should be seen as a natural progression in the colonising strategy of creating a loyal class of 'indians' (actually, no one else is indian) who'll 'manage' and quell any native movements and discourses for true freedom..

srikakulamlo siima kondaki

@kuffir

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Jan 17

this is the brahmin's biopolitics which the colonisers in america, australia, everywhere had followed to cure the indigenous people of their indigeneity, their self..

srikakulamlo siima kondaki

@kuffir

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@kuffir

wish foucault had studied france's colonies and almost-colonies they still hold..rather than focus on just the 20th century french navel, so to speak..

1:52 PM · Jan 17, 2021·Twitter