Active Intolerance

TRAMA

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d'information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, or GIP). The GIP was a radical activist group, extant between 1970 and 1973, in which Michel Foucault was heavily involved. It aimed to facilitate the circulation of information about living conditions in French prisons and, over time, it catalyzed several revolts and instigated minor reforms. In Foucault's words, the GIP sought to identify what was 'intolerable' about the prison system and then to produce 'an active intolerance' of that same intolerable reality. To do this, the GIP 'gave prisoners the floor,' so as to hear from them about what to resist and how. The essays collected here explore the GIP's resources both for Foucault studies and for prison activism today.

SOMMARIO

Table of ContentsForeword; Bernard HarcourtAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsActive Intolerance: An Introduction; Perry Zurn and Andrew DiltsPART I: HISTORY: THE GIP AND FOUCAULT IN CONTEXT1. The Abolition of Philosophy; Ladelle McWhorter2. The Untimely Speech of the GIP Counter-Archive; Lynne Huffer3. Conduct and Power: Foucault ' 's Methodological Expansions in 1971; Colin Koopman4. Work and Failure: Assessing the Prisons Information Group; Perry ZurnIntolerable 1: Abu Ali Abdur ' 'RahmanPART II: BODY: RESISTANCE AND THE POLITICS OF CARE5. Breaking the Conditioning: The Relevance of the Prisons Information Group; Steve Champion (Adisa Kamara)6. Between Discipline and Care-giving: Changing Prison Population Demographics and Possibilities for Self-Transformation; Dianna Taylor7. Unruliness without Rioting: Hunger Strikes in Contemporary Politics; Falguni ShethIntolerable 2: Derrick QuinteroPART III: VOICE: PRISONERS AND THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL8. Disrupted Foucault: Los Angeles ' ' Coalition Against Police Abuse (CAPA) and the Obsolescence of White Academic Raciality; Dylan Rodríguez9. Investigations from Marx to Foucault; Marcelo Hoffman10. The GIP as a Neoliberal Intervention: Trafficking in Illegible Concepts; Shannon Winnubst11. The Disordering of Discourse: Voice and Authority in the GIP; Nancy LuxonIntolerable 3: Donald MiddlebrooksPART IV: PRESENT: THE PRISON AND ITS FUTURE(S)12. Beyond Guilt and Innocence: The Creaturely Politics of Prisoner Resistance Movements; Lisa Guenther13. Resisting ' 'Massive Elimination ' ': Foucault, Immigration, and the GIP; Natalie Cisneros14. ' 'Can They Ever Escape? ' ': Foucault, Black Feminism, and the Intimacy of Abolition; Stephen DillonNotes on ContributorsIndex

AUTORE

Perry Zurn is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hampshire College, USA.   Andrew Dilts is Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University, USA.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781137510662
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: XVIII, 297 p.
• Pagine Arabe: 297
• Pagine Romane: xviii