Celebrated criminal spectacles deliberately drowned out political violence

Evidence

It should not be forgotten that Lacenaire’s celebrated death succeeded in muffling the echoes of Fieschi’s attempt on the life of Louis-Philippe; Fieschi, one of the most recent of the regicides, represented the converse figure of a petty criminality leading to political violence. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 435

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle on how bourgeois culture systematically substitutes aestheticized crime narratives for political alarm.
• CANDY: Lacenaire’s lavish pre-execution feast by fashionable Paris society while inmates tried to kill him is a striking nugget.
• XREF: connects to: Public executions produced disorder rather than deterrence for the crowd — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 118; Confinement of sanctioned violence to places was meant to circumscribe it — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 252; The spectacle’s crowd could invert terror into revolt against the punitive power — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 115 (+2 more)

Related

• Public executions produced disorder rather than deterrence for the crowd (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The spectacle’s crowd could invert terror into revolt against the punitive power #complicates (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 115
• Confinement of sanctioned violence to places was meant to circumscribe it #expands (0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 252
• Public executions taught the people that violence could be met with violence #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 125
• Public executions produced disorder rather than deterrence for the crowd #complicates (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 118
• State power neutralized spectacle by garrisoning execution squares #complicates (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 120