By Nadia Urbinati If I concern myself with the G.I.P. [Groupe d’information sur les prisons], it is because I prefer effective work to university chattering and scribbling books. …On the other hand, a concrete political action in favor of prisoners… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt [This article draws on a longer essay titled “The ’73 Graft: Punishment, Political Economy, and the Genealogy of Morals”] In their fascinating and provocative articles on The Punitive Society, Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and Nadia Urbinati raise… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt and Jesús R. Velasco Michel Foucault, La Société punitive. Cours au Collège de France. 1972-1973, ed. Bernard E. Harcourt (Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, 2013) Michel Foucault, The Punitive Society: Lectures at the Collège de France 1972-1973, trans. Graham Burchell (New… Continue Reading