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"panopticism"

by gaol

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    This is the self-released, first pressing of the "Panopticism" Demo -- four tracks on black pro-tapes. The cover features original artwork by D.

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1.
Internal surveillance original sin moral of law confessions of men project of discipline utopian government plague-stricken dream total confinement house of correction punish the poor normalization chained to the floor bedlam to prison asylum to pill chemical narrative gaze over will nasty, brutish, and short submit to power central spirit always watching faceless unreason totalitarian mode confine the unwanted negation of agency leviathan gaze sword and crosier gun and baton monarch militia correctional officers always watching always watching submit to power submit to power leviathan gaze
2.
PANOPTICISM 02:29
deprived of choice fiat experimentum i’m scared to fix my stare i’m scared to look away a liminal torture obscured by the mundane invaded every night by the glow of a screen tethered to a lifeworld severed by compliance grind the rogues fiat experimentum worthless bodies deviancy down on your knees panopticism live in fear fiat experimentum
3.
shooting dope on the train sleep all day wake in pain abscess arm thrown in jail snorting xanax in a cell hospitalized navane dose methadone diagnose under the expressway cop cars flash throwing belongings in the trash and i’d rather be dead my arm’s infected and my mouth tastes like lead i’m lost and hurting and i’m ready to die nobody cares about me why do i try no utility human economy reduced to commodity no autonomy clean up the streets abuse is discrete zone of abandonment beds of concrete
4.
A GENEALOGY 01:59
smallpox in the ohio mounds in the floodplain de soto lineage or infested puritans fort encroachment killing indians tecumseh’s war prophetstown razed manifest destiny blacks are still slaves lyles station radiated trepanation kkk making policy anglocentric society industrial landscape coal mining aggregate warship worship jarhead legacy meth monolith eat at a buffet high suicide rate depression is the human condition

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...a four-song demo, written and recorded in a few days

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released May 10, 2016

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