The document discusses the evolution of punishment and criminal justice systems from medieval times through the Enlightenment period. It mentions that in medieval times, torture and the Bloody Code were used to punish criminals, potentially influenced by religion. It then discusses changing views during the Enlightenment, including the introduction of the Panopticon prison model which aimed to rehabilitate criminals through discipline and surveillance.

1. ‘Modernity’
Establishing the founding principles of
human ‘progress’

2. Medieval Torture: The Bloody Code

3. From Bloody Code …
• Why do you think people were punished /
tortured in this way?
• Do you think it was effective?
• What role did ‘religion’ play in this?

4. France: 1757

5. … towards Enlightenment
• Sapere Aude!
• Dare to use your own ‘reason’
– Death of religion, tradition (birth of science/rationality

7. France: 1837

8. Panopticon
• Discipline the Soul
• Rehabilitation
• ‘Cure’ the
problem of crime
• Surveillance &
Control

9. Back to Dada …
• Dada is a form of Early Modernist Art
• What was Dada all about?
• A ‘reaction’ to what (what was it a challenge
against)?

10. Jackson Pollock
• Late Modernist
• Total newness & creativity …
• Taking Art in new adventurous directions