Benjamin George Coles argues that artistic means should often be incorporated into punishments – and indeed that we would benefit generally from thinking of punishment in more aesthetic terms. He first identifies the various objectives that we standardly have with punishment and argues for the primacy of an educational one. He then describes a series of real-life educational punishments and closes with a discussion of why the notion of punishment art is such a strange one.

"Black Americans are painfully reminded that racism has worsened since Obama’s presidency, not improved."

"In the age of the toxic commons, not one of us, not even the environmentally privileged ones like me, remains unaffected by toxicants."