carceral city, n.All

The Carceral city (n.) replaced ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the reformers' dream of a city of punishments, where a thousand little theatres would have staged the penal code as a permanent festival.

The Carceral city (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no king at its centre: what holds it in place is a tangle of walls, spaces, institutions, rules and discourse.