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can someone recommend a good/interesting book on these type of theories- maybe a good psychedelic one? I read food of the gods awhile back, I thought it had a lot of interesting info
Michel Foucault - Discipline and Punish
"But modern societies intervene from day one to shape, train, and normalize individuals. Compulsory schooling, public health measures, passports, employment records, family counseling, and the like are all very recent social practices.
In each case, an institution molds behavior according to a norm, subordinates individuals to institutional demands, examines and watches over all subjects, and punishes deviants. Such a society, Foucault argues, not only needs prisons because it inevitably produces deviants but also is itself prisonlike, "carceral," from top to bottom. The institutions that administer individuals (schools, factories, the army) use the same strategies and techniques of control that prisons employ."
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Louis Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
"Althusser famously terms the societal mechanisms for creating pliant, obedient citizens who practice dominant values "ideological state apparatuses" (ISAs). Complex, numerous, and differing from one society to another, they are civil institutions that have legal standing (hence their designation as "state" apparatuses), including churches, schools, the family, courts, political parties, unions, the media, sports, and the arts.
ISAs differ from "repressive state apparatuses" (RSAs), such as the police, the military, the prison system, and government, in several key ways: they are not unified, they operate primarily in the private sphere, and they attain their power not by means of explicit coercion or force but through implicit consent realized in example, in church, in school, at home, or on sports teams.
As Althusser notes, a dominant social order would not survive if it relied only on force, and he traces the rising influence of schools as the dominant ISA in modern society. Schools have supplanted the church in this role, instilling in students the habits that will make them productive workers in modern capitalistic societies, so that they show up at the factory or office day after day without question."
Not quite 'psychedelic', but very worthy of reading and thinking/discussing while tripping. Or, for reading pleasure alone.
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