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Retainee M-7493002

Writing in Foucault's slipstream
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April 2025, no. 474

The Dream Hotel: A novel by Laila Lalami

Bloomsbury, $32.99 pb, 322 pp

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Retainee M-7493002

Writing in Foucault's slipstream
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April 2025, no. 474

On 22 January 1840, the Mettray Penal Colony officially opened. Mettray was a French prison farm for juvenile criminals that was imitated by other incarceration programs throughout Europe as a disciplinary model. For Michel Foucault, in Discipline and Punish (1975), its creation was a turning point in human power relations, as its structure reconfigured punishment as discipline and surveillance; it transformed society into a carceral culture. As Foucault claims, power and knowledge are one and the same.

The Dream Hotel: A novel

The Dream Hotel: A novel

by Laila Lalami

Bloomsbury, $32.99 pb, 322 pp

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