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"How should we describe the devastation brought about on the lives of the enslaved? How should we describe plantation slavery as an institutionalized and transgenerational structure of dominance? Irreparable Evil, by David Scott, is an intellectual engagement with the insufficiently acknowledged legacy of plantation slavery in the New World. He argues that while slavery involved unimaginable practices of violence, its destructive powers include that of an inherited form of life. The perniciousness of slavery was its legacy as an inheritance of future generations. Scott's locational focus is the Anglophone Caribbean with an emphasis on Jamaica. Written as a series of interconnected essays, Scott consider what he means by moral and reparatory history and the related concepts of incomparable evil and incommensurable evil. He explores the problems of fictional conceptions of slavery's evil and concludes with an interrogation of whether or not the evil of slavery is ever truly reparable"--

A critical commentary on Simondon's Psychic and collective individuation. This book clarifies Simondon's complex terminology and structure through chapter by chapter commentary. It also invites a dialogue with other thinkers/philosophers and places the work in its historical context. It includes a discussion about Simondon's relevance to current ideas about biopolitics and post-Nietzschean ethics

Why prison? : posing the question / David Scott -- Prisons and social structure in late-capitalist societies / Alessandro De Giorgi -- The prison paradox in neoliberal britain / Emma Bell -- Crafting the neoliberal state: workfare, prisonfare, and social insecurity / Loic Wacquant -- Pleasure, punishment and the professional middle class / Magnus Hornqvist -- Penal spectatorship and the culture of punishment / Michelle Brown -- Prison and the public sphere: toward a democratic theory of penal order / Vanessa Barker -- The iron cage of prison studies / Mark Brown -- The prison and national identity : citizenship, punishment and the sovereign state / Emma Kaufman and Mary Bosworth -- Punishing the detritus and the damned : penal and semi-penal institutions in liverpool / Vickie Cooper and Joe Sim -- Why prison? : incarceration and the great recession / Keally McBride -- Ghosts of the past, present, and future of penal reform in the United States / Marie Gottschalk -- Schooling the carceral state: challenging the school to prison pipeline / Erica Meiners -- Why no prisons? / Julia C. Oparah -- Unequalled in pain / David Scott

Introduction: International relations, history, and images -- Humiliations established in the First and Second Opium Wars -- Humiliations maintained on China and the Chinese post-1860 -- China's attempted first awakening -- China's further humiliations -- China adrift in a brave new world -- War-time humiliations from Japan and the West