'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.
Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
Prison works.
I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.
Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.
My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
Power tends to get confused with repression.
When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
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