The Punitive Society by Arnold I. Davidson

Author:Arnold I. Davidson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Published: 2015-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

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See M. Foucault, “Théories et Institutions pénales,” seventh lecture, fol. 2: “all the major phases of development of the penal system, of the repressive system, are ways of responding to forms of popular struggles”; fol. 3: “The couple penal system–delinquency is an effect of the couple repressive system–seditious [system]. An effect in the sense that it is a product, a condition of preservation, a displacement, and an occultation.”

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Foucault will put forward an analysis of illegalisms (see the following note and “Course context” below, pp. 281-283) more precise than the reference to the notion of “seditious mobs,” which was used and keenly debated at the time. See E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, p. 62: “Too often historians have used the term [‘mobs’] lazily, to evade further analysis, or … as a gesture of prejudice.” For Foucault, the penal system is not the result of a fear aroused by the “seditious mobs,” but rather by the industrialization of bourgeois fortune that will display its wealth before the lower classes, and therefore make it available to it; see “Course context” below, p. 278. In an interview given a few months later, Foucault “corrects” his own use of the term “seditious mobs”: “In fact I do not think it is so much the problem of the seditious mobs that is essential, but the fact that bourgeois wealth, by the very necessities of economic development, is invested in such a way that it is in the hands of those who were responsible for production. Every worker was a possible predator. And every creation of surplus value was at the same time the opportunity, or anyway the possibility, of a possible purloining”: M. Foucault, “À propos de l’enfermement pénitentiaire,” DE, II, p. 438/“Quarto,” I, p. 1306.

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