Notes
1. The Body of the Condemned
- Foucault started by discussing two different styles of punishment - Damiens the Regicide and Faucher's young prisoners in Paris.
- Two processes: (1) disappearance of punishment as a spectacle (**amende honorable**, prisoners in public work). (2)
- The way to evaluate the effectiveness of punishment changed: inevitability vs. visible intensity.
- Blame is redistributed between conviction vs. execution.
Quotes
It is ugly to be punishable, but there is no glory in punishing.
—Foucault, The body of the condemned
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