By Miguel Beistegui On 6 March 2018, in a speech in Agen, President Macron declared wanting to bring to an end the “tout-carcéral” which characterises the French penal system. Would this mean the end of the punitive society? Rereading Foucault’s… Continue Reading
By Henrique Carvalho My reflections here will focus on one aspect of the punitive society that I believe needs to be particularly emphasised and investigated. The punitive society is not simply the society that punishes; it is a society that… Continue Reading
By a graduate student in the seminar Why on earth are there prisons? An anachronistic question, one may reply, given that prisons have already been so prevalent and accepted in our society, but Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de… Continue Reading
By S. Shabzadeh Since the end of the Cold War nearly three decades ago, the left has been unable to overcome the triumph of neoliberal capitalism. Professor Harcourt and Professor Saar’s poignant discussion of Pollock, Neumann, Adorno, and Marcuse’s respective… Continue Reading
By Irene Dal Poz To re-imagine our political economy and the legal order revolving around a punitive society, we should also re-imagine its morality. In order to re-imagine morality beyond the one of the punitive society, however, it is necessary… Continue Reading
By Stuart Elden I’ve written about The Punitive Society course by Foucault before, particularly in a review essay which appeared in Historical Materialism, and then in my book Foucault: The Birth of Power which appeared with Polity in 2017. That… Continue Reading
By Goldie Osuri Reflections on Foucault’s lectures in The Punitive Society, especially in relation to my current research regarding Indian settler-colonial occupation of Kashmir, compel me to say that alongside thinking through the need to transform our punitive societies, we… Continue Reading
By Cori Thomas The first time I ever stepped foot in a prison was September 2016 with two podcast producers to do research on a show that did not end up happening. I fully expected to meet a bunch of… Continue Reading