From: Nathan Goralnik <rhizome85-AT-home.com>
Subject: Re: Situtaion in Turkish Prisons and Turkish people in the eyes of 1st and 2nd world
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:39:34 -0700


> I don't think that Foucault gives an answer to the question of modern
> torture.  in Discipline and Punish he is concerned about medieval PUBLIC
> torture, far different than that taking place in prisons.  and i don't
think
> that modern regimes employ torture purely out of cruelty or because they
> haven't read bentham's panopticon.  a more complete answer to the question
> might be found in elaine scarry's The Body In Pain.  has anyone read it?
> what do you think?

Adam, wouldn't the sort of torture being discussed be a a practice of
supplice? After all, the public/private distinction being questioned here
seems to be fairly homologous to the public/private distinction you're using
to distinguish supplice from torture.

dunno
~Nate