(1) This contrast usefully distinguishes colonial-era Subsequent histories of American punishment haveįollowed Foucault's model, tracing the historical shift from aĬolonial-era display of the body to a nineteenth-century discipline of A century later,įoucault argues, the object of punitive discipline had shifted from theīody to "the modern soul," the product of a new economy of Justice meted out to him by bearing [the truth of what he had beenĬharged with I physically on his body" (43). State power by publishing the prisoner's "crime and the "moment of truth," a scene of public expiation that solidified In this way, public execution served as a Wounds doused with molten liquid, Damiens's tortured body horrified Quartering of Damiens the regicide in 1757 with a regimented scheduleįor penitentiary inmates published eighty years later. Public spectacle, Michel Foucault juxtaposes the graphic drawing and To dramatize his argument about the disappearance of torture as
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