

Image creditThe image is the Albion flour mill, completed in 1786, which was possibly the referent of Blake's "dark satanic mills" in his poem Jerusalem:Īnd did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic Mills? For Fish, it might have been Is There a Text in This Class? For Rorty, it was probably Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. I mention an idea I got from Richard Rorty and Stanley Fish. It was the founding institution of what came to be called "The Pennsylvania System." See also "Eastern State Penitentiary: A Prison With a Past".

The Eastern State Penitentiary was a model prison that featured solitary confinement, a Bible as the only possession, and piecework in the cell. George Lakoff, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind, 1987 On large language models and "a judicious amount of randomness", Stephen Wolfram's "What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?" is good. The chapter I cite is “Ships and Chips: Technological Repression and the Origin of the Wage” Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century. Vincenzo Natali, script for the movie "Cube", 6th draft Prado, Starting With Foucault (2/e), 2000 Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison, 1975Ĭ.G.

But his is a disturbing theory for the problem-solvers among us, so I make it more palatable by comparing it to a cult horror movie from 1997. So it doesn't really fit with the podcast theme. But I don't think there's a lot you can *do* with that theory in the sense of "applying it to software". It seems wrong to talk about Foucault without mentioning his theory of power and societal change.
