The Italian Five Stars-League government has on several occasion advocated enhanced cooperation with the People’s Republic of China, especially within the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the massive infrastructure project launched by China in 2013.
This article addresses postcritique as a novel epistemological and methodological attitude that invites to get closer to how social actors put the social together. It first discusses the break with critical scholarship by juxtaposing alternative conceptions of what guides people’s conduct. While most critical approaches concern themselves with the invisible mechanisms governing social action, postcritique is more attuned to how people’s doings produce effects of connection. The article goes on to discuss the notion of theory postcritique entails.
Among the founders of Gip (Groupe d’Informations sur les Prisons), Michel Foucault was the only one who had researched internment practices during his academical career and he would also be the only one to develop his militancy in a new field of research concerning prisons. In 1971, when the Gip was created, Foucault had already behind him the publication of History of Madness (1961). Then, in 1973, he held at the Collège de France a course entitled The Punitive Society (La société punitive) and in 1975 released Discipline and Punish, book with the subtitle The Birth of the Prison.
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