I am a Doctor now

[grue]

the skinny is that state isntitutions are going through a "managerial shift", focusing on risk avoidance and the so-called "government-at-a-distance"

prisons walk this way too which kinda changes a lot, specially if you're going in thinkin in foucauldian terms

I found that a not so small part of this happens at the implementation of "cultural activities". and for a few decades now It Is Known that when someone says "culture" they mean a specific application of culture within a set of political discourses and intentions

so I asked what are Those, went down the rabbit hole and before I knew it I was using Rancière so I stopped and wrote a bit about it

so the thesis is mostly a reflection on this process, while trying to define the framework for what passes as cultural activities, tying it (and then untying it again) with "prison art" (thanks melissa) and in the end half-assing a couple of concepts to help think about this mess