Meet Denise Albright, Michael McKie, and Khalid Nelson. They ran the Rikers Island Fight Club, known as “The Program” — where certain inmates were beaten by other inmates on “The Team” — but these three were not inmates. They were Rikers Island officers.
Continue reading → Compressing Concentricities: The Rikers Island Fight Club
Twitter is the most Panopticonic method of self-regulating your own incarceration: You’re basically talking to yourself out loud without any real context because you’re typing; but when a friend challenged me — nay, DARED ME — to try Twitter: “How can you hate it if you never tried it?” The gauntlet was thrown, the face was slapped, the dare: Accepted! You can see my Twitter homepage below: http://twitter.com/BolesBlogs
In a big win for the civil liberties of innocent people charged with a crime, but never proven guilty, the court in Strasbourg recently ruled 857,000 DNA profiles must be destroyed, and not kept in a database, for future surveillance.
Barack Obama’s courting of the Gay Community is over. He won. They Gays are out. The hateful Rick Warren is in.
Continue reading → Convenience Over Conscience: Obama is Over the Gays
The Boles Blogs Network is delighted to announce the creation of three new blogs for your reading pleasure that focus on news, commentary and analysis of three important themes that run throughout this Urban Semiotic blog. The first — Panopticonic — concerns us watching those watching us. Jeremy Bentham invented the idea of a “panopticon” in 1787:
A circular prison with cells arranged around a central well, from which
inmates can be observed at all times. Also in extended use.
Today, Panopticonic helps us fight back against the decay of personal privacy under the eyeing thumb of those that surveil us on a daily basis.
Continue reading → Announcing Panopticonic, Carceral Nation and Memeingful
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