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Are Prisons Computers?

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charting the transition from discipline to control

download pdf “To be the prisoner of someone’s dream, this is possibly horror in its pure state.” -Gilles Deleuze, L’Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze As personal computers swiftly invaded homes, offices, and schools at the dusk of the 20th century—parsing and processing the world within the algorithmic churn of word processors, internet browsers, and desktop environments—visual culture overflowed with diverse images of computation that sought to make sense of the networked machines precipitously blinking to life all around. Inundated by the bundles of fiber-optics, flickers of monitors, and…

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