warning theory

Blog and police, police and blog. ──Lin Shen

Since the seventeenth century, the police and the state have gradually become connected and symbiotic, but their form and function have continued to change. The European empires inherited the Age of Sail and fundamentally changed mankind's understanding of civilization, law, and police forces, and used colonial "civilization" to spread throughout the world.

In addition to imparting skills, education around the world also instills citizenship, customs and culture, national history, etc., conducts daily assessment and supervision, and provides warning and punishment in case of trouble. It can be seen from this that culture and education are nothing more than police studies, echoing the "police", a life form shared by the ancient Greeks. It affects the whole body, and the consequences of wrong punishment and wrong education will be disastrous. In the face of civilizational, racial and ethical conflicts, how can we unleash the potential of cultural gentry inside and outside the classroom to inspire the new generation to escape the fate of mediocrity?

Cambridge writer Lin Shen uses the interdisciplinary care of humanists to start from the conflict between the French and British empires, revise the mainstream view of police history, introduce Benjamin's view of history and time, and then sort out the philosophies of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Honsier . He separates police and education, repositions education and upbringing, and leads readers to hope re-embedded in desperate situations, and to step into the positive and profound infinite possibilities of the present.