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AUTHOR
Kevin Ladd
De quoi l'utopie est-elle la connaissance ? Peine, règle et langage (autour d'Orwell)
What are we supposed to learn from utopian/dystopian fiction – beyond the obvious fact that the state of the world could be better, or worse ? What can these fables tell us about criminal penalty as a concept and as practice ? Conversely, what can punishment tell us of the limits of utopia as a tale and as discourse ?By stressing 1984's explicit references to the meticulous elimination of anything vaguely resembling a rule, while putting the novel in the perspective of Orwell's social and colonial experience of penal injustice, this paper shows that interpretations of Orwell inspired by the likes of Rorty, Foucault or Deleuze, which are grounded on power, discipline or control, somehow miss…
La critique de l’éclectisme pénal. D’un modèle de contradictions à un modèle de contorsions
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