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School or Prison
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#2It's part of the larger situation that the buildings created by large bureaucracies all look about the same.
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#3What’s the point being made here? That if you take a picture of a building from a specific angle it’s difficult to tell the function of the building?
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#4 Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in normality, who continue and multiply the functions of the judge, should have become the modern instrument of penality? Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
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#5Could easily make one of these for a lot of hospitals too.
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#6What’s the point being made here? That if you take a picture of a building from a specific angle it’s difficult to tell the function of the building?
I would guess that the intention is for the readers to think about other similarities between schools and prisons, and the the outsides of the buildings are just a convenient way to inspire more comparisons.
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#7What’s the point being made here? That if you take a picture of a building from a specific angle it’s difficult to tell the function of the building?
I just found it fun. Like the "boobs or armpit" type of games on Newgrounds.
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#8What’s the point being made here? That if you take a picture of a building from a specific angle it’s difficult to tell the function of the building?
Going to be honest though. School (at least mine) functioned very similarly to a prison, in fact, most prisons had better conditions than my secondary school.
There is a simple fact that schools can be glorified daycare so that workers can offload the burden of childcare. For this purpose, a prison makes sense. Despite not being the most humane considering the kids didn’t do any crime worthy of rehabilitation.
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#9I did quite well by measuring "overall area of ground level windows".
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#10It's part of the larger situation that the buildings created by large bureaucracies all look about the same.
It’s an architectural style called “brutalism”, which has the predominant aesthetic of “a boot stamping on a human face forever”.