13 | Beyond the Punitive Society

Event Type: Conversations

Date

January 7, 2021

Location

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Time

12:15 pm – 2:45 pm

Event Organizer

Bernard Harcourt, Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought (CCCCT), and The Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy at the University of Warwick

Event Sponsor

13/13 CCCT, Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought (CCCCT), The Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy at the University of Warwick

Event Co-Sponsor(s)

The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and Columbia Global Center - Paris

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CCCT will present a Joint Session with The Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Miguel Beistegui, Henrique Carvalho, Stuart Elden, Daniele Lorenzini, Goldie Osuri, Irene Dal Poz, Federico Testa, and Bernard E. Harcourt will read and discuss The Punitive Society by Michel Foucault. It will begin with a conversation with playwright Cori Thomas and Adnan Khan on the play LOCKDOWN.

About this seminar:

In 1973, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Collège de France on The Punitive Society that tied together the exploitation of the working class to the invention of the prison. Foucault brought together the different strands of oppression—economic, social, carceral—under the larger rubric of a “punitive society.” In this seminar, we will explore what it would mean to abolish our punitive society.

Abolition 13/13 information, including bibliographies, can be found here.