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Marx actually admired capitalism in some ways, which means that he might have been right about a few things; meanwhile, his trenchant criticisms of it will be treated as the quaintly perceptive observations of an awkward crank

de Certeau’s analysis of the city presents itself as both an extension of Foucault’s critique of totalizing enclosure and as its immanent critique

The key point hinges on the multivalent distinction between enclosure and indebtedness

disciplinary society has its Panopticon, the extension of carceral logic from the penal system outward into all institutions of social conditioning

In order to start thinking about the relationship between indebted- ness, visibility, and space, we can turn to an essay by Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on Control Societies” (1990).