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Through the Rubric of Foucault

by William DesJardins

For me, the Groundswell mural recently completed at the Brooklyn Detention Complex conjures up Michel Foucault’s 1975 seminal work Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la Prison (Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, english translation 1977).

Reconnecting with the Medici

by William DesJardins

For me, the Project Groundswell mural on Connie’s Restaurant in Kensington elicits memories of the Medici who underwrote the Renaissance while ruling over Florence, and later Tuscany, from the 14th to 18th century (Wikipedia).