File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_2002/foucault.0207, message 13


Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 21:33:18 -0400
From: Phil Ryan <pryan-AT-ccs.carleton.ca>
Subject: Re: Gaze


Lionel Boxer wrote:


> I was watching a recent French production of Les Miserables.
>
>   When being released form prison, the leach character was given a passport that was printed on not white, but yellow paper.
>   He even says to the prison governor that the yellow passport would mean that would always be an ex-convict - that theme
>   was repeated throughout the film.  Would I be correct is saying that this is an extention of the judicial gaze?
>
>   Perhaps that is what Les Miserables is all about(?)
>
One of the demands of the GIP with which Foucault was involved was for
the abolition of the
police record [casier judiciaire], as it condemns ex-prisoners to
poverty and unemployment.

[D+E, 2:197]

Phil Ryan



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