micropower

for me it's an image of the workings of Foucauldian micropower: how the toxic force of a police morality and mentality gets transmitted and channeled on paper, paper that a typewriter ribbon has passed over and transmitted inked characters, characters that are carefully centered (physically since there was no paragraph-formatting button to push), sometimes IN SOLID CAPS FOR THE POLICING AUTHOR-ITY, sometimes underlined which involved going back over the text, all in an unvarying but uneven and slightly wavering Courier font.  Copied, mailed or carried, read, and shaping the mentalities and behaviors of thousands of cops and officials.  Mundane quotidian racism of the typewritten "program."