By Brian Asey Me myself, being a documentary filmmaker who is incarcerated, things can be challenging because of the things we can and cannot film or talk about while using state equipment. To tell a true authentic story of inside… Continue Reading
By Federico Testa How are the emergence of modern forms of power and forms of economic production and exploitation connected? As Foucault will explain in the Punitive Society, the existence of a punitive logic – not spatially restricted to prisons… Continue Reading
By Eric Phillips I met Cori Thomas three years ago at the Media Center at San Quentin. She was working with Lonnie Morris on obtaining information on all the intricacies of prison life with which Lonnie, being incarcerated over four… Continue Reading
By Thanh Tran December 20, 2020 To whom it may concern, I struggle to put into words the visceral feeling I felt when I watched LOCKDOWN. It wasn’t just a play for me. This was my reality being printed in… Continue Reading
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 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