: Foucault contrasts the gruesome public execution of Damiens the parricide in 1757 with the rigid, silent daily timetable of a Paris prison just 80 years later. He argues this wasn't just "humanitarian progress" but a shift to a more efficient and calculated technology of power. The Panopticon
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