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How does the threat of extraordinary subversion play out in states that have already developed extensive carceral systems? From Anarchism in Italy and the United States in the 1890s through the Dirty War in Argentina in the 1970s to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States, episodes of political subversion generate state responses that are penal as well as military. This paper explores these historical examples for insight into two questions: What kind of residues from these episodes of political subversion and counter-repression leave in the penal imagination of these societies (Lombroso wrote extensively about criminal anarchism)? How does the enormous expansion of the penal state in the United States during the war on crime influence the "war on terror" that has followed the most recent experience of subversion?