By Colin Gordon Among the valuable Foucault 13/13 series of video and written discussions of Michel Foucault’s Collège de France lectures, recently coordinated at Columbia University by Bernard E Harcourt and Jesus R Velasco, I was struck by the following… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt I am simply trying to see, to reveal, and to transform into legible discourse, legible to all, that which may be unbearable for the most disadvantaged classes in our current system of justice. — Michel Foucault,… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The third seminar (video here) on The Punitive Society, with Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and Nadia Urbinati, centered on three topics: (1) the model of civil war as a vehicle to analyze relations of power throughout society; (2)… Continue Reading
By Partha Chatterjee On the question of “the war of all against all”, Didier, Nadia and Bernard made important interventions to situate Foucault’s 1972-73 lectures in the political context of the time. But it seems to me that there is… Continue Reading
By Isadora Ruyter-Harcourt (at the Centro in Rome) As we examine, in the seminar this week, the “punitive society” from the eighteenth century to the present, I thought it might be interesting to step back to the Roman era to… Continue Reading
By Antonio Pele, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Let me add a few thoughts to the rich discussion on the blog and at the Foucault 3/13 seminar on The Punitive Society (TPS), which I have been watching from Rio. To… Continue Reading
By Didier Fassin The Punitive Society prepares and announces Discipline and Punish, on which Foucault began to work in parallel. Nevertheless, far from being a draft of the latter, the former deserves to be treated as a completely distinct and… Continue Reading
By Axel Honneth By contrast to Nadia Urbinati, whose comments I read with great interest and from which I learned a lot, I will concentrate in my remarks on some theoretical premises within Foucault’s fascinating lectures on The Punitive Society. There… Continue Reading
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