ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to understand the carceral state is grounded in a Foucauldian framework of a carceral continuum or carceral network. In this sense the carceral state extends far beyond what is generally considered, usurping and incorporating its own subjects through the consumption of its violence, its carceral logics and extension through neoliberalism. The chapter explores how the violent carceral state becomes benign, consumed and celebrated. The true power of carceral state violence becomes coopted into projects of consumerism. The carceral state “isolates all it shows from its context, its past, its intentions and its consequences”, manipulating individuals in the consumption and reproduction of state violence. The collage of spectacular violence and commodification of carceral power serves to normalize the abnormal. There is a broad range of children’s toys that celebrate increased surveillance, military power and carceral violence, indoctrinating children from an early age.
