[lbo-talk] Marx without quotation marks

[wrobert at uci.edu]

This has been an interesting discussion, and I am going to get to some of
the other comments if I can, but I think that there is a fairly
significant aspect of incarceration in the United States that Foucault's
analysis cannot explain, and because of its historical frame of analysis,
does not take into account, which is the way that structural of racial
domination begin to be reproduced through prison, and criminality.  You
can look at the work of Davis, which draws from Foucault's work (although
she is not the only one doing this work) for this sort of analysis. 
robert wood


> On Apr 1, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
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>> Let's put Foucault's point bluntly: the purpose of the prison system
>> is to create criminals and expand various social practices and
>> discourse to "control" criminality.  As far as I can see, the U. S.
>> prison system is a wonderful case study that illustrates Foucault's
>> point.
>
> I find this a seductive explanation, but just how does it happen? Did
> Nixon sit down and plan it out when he unleashed the war on crime? And
> what about the role of politicians pandering to the "get tough" crowd
> of voters? In the U.S., the incarceration boom had pretty broad
> popular support.
>
> Doug
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