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I just finished reading the Guantanamo Operations Manual, courtesy of Wikileaks (proper military name Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedure). The first (and most obvious) thing that comes to mind is, of course, the Panopticon and Foucault’s Discipline and Punish. In Discipline and Punish, Foucault analyzes justice systems prior to the 19th century prison model: He ...