![]() Lastly, in the project for a prison institution that was then developing, punishment was seen as a technique for the coercion of individuals it operated methods of training the body – not signs – by the traces it leaves, in the form of habits, in behaviour and it presupposed the setting up of a specific power for the administration of the penalty. ![]() The reforming jurists, on the other hand, saw punishment as a procedure for requalifying individuals as subjects, as juridical subjects it uses not marks, but signs, coded sets of representations, which would be given the most rapid circulation and the most general acceptance possible by citizens witnessing the scene of punishment. In monarchical law, punishment is a ceremonial of sovereignty it uses the ritual marks of the vengeance that it applies to the body of the condemned man and it deploys before the eyes of the spectators an effect of terror as intense as it is discontinuous, irregular and always above its own laws, the physical presence of the sovereign and of his power. ![]()
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