Total Institutions

  • Claire Birkenshaw “I don’t want to survive. I want to live!” (Captain McCrea, WALL-E) The Ship of Consumption  In History of Madness, Michel Foucault (1972/2009) examines how Western reason constituted itself through an evolving relationship with madness: first encountering it as an unsettling bearer of truth, then excluding it as unreason and, finally, transforming it into an…

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