The disappearance of public executions marks therefore the decline of the spectacle; but it also marks a slackening of the hold on the body. (Michel Foucault)

The disappearance of public executions marks therefore the decline of the spectacle; but it also marks a slackening of the hold on the body.

Michel Foucault

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