Expanding Foucault’s tracings of penitential discipline, with their strategic liminality and instrumental ‘visibilities,’ this inquiry elucidates the operations embedded between openings- the inert, but generative material resistances of early solitary incarceration. These diagrams plot the 1836 testimony of Eastern State Penitentiary wardens,prisoners, and laborers before the state legislature, drawing out how the drive for atomized, omniscient Quaker reflection was symbiotically grounded in mundane material continuities and habitual,condoned collaborations.
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