Active Intolerance [electronic resource] : Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition /
Zurn, Perry.editor.
Dilts, Andrew.editor.
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.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Foreword; Active Intolerance: An Introduction; Part I History: The GIP and Foucault in Context; 1 The Abolition of Philosophy; 2 The Untimely Speech of the GIP Counter-Archive; 3 Conduct and Power: Foucault's Methodological Expansions in 1971; 4 Work and Failure: Assessing the Prisons Information Group; Intolerable 1; Part II Body: Resistance and the Politics of Care; 5 Breaking the Conditioning: The Relevance of the Prisons Information Group
6 Between Discipline and Caregiving: Changing Prison Population Demographics and Possibilities for Self-Transformation7 Unruliness without Rioting: Hunger Strikes in Contemporary Politics; Intolerable 2; Part III Voice: Prisoners and the Public Intellectual; 8 Disrupted Foucault: Los Angeles' Coalition Against Police Abuse (CAPA) and the Obsolescence of White Academic Raciality; 9 Investigations from Marx to Foucault; 10 The GIP as a Neoliberal Intervention: Trafficking in Illegible Concepts; 11 The Disordering of Discourse: Voice and Authority in the GIP; Intolerable 3
Part IV Present: The Prison and Its Future(s)12 Beyond Guilt and Innocence: The Creaturely Politics of Prisoner Resistance Movements; 13 Resisting "Massive Elimination": Foucault, Immigration, and the GIP; 14 "Can They Ever Escape?" Foucault, Black Feminism, and the Intimacy of Abolition; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes index.
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.
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Groupe d'information sur les prisons.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
France—History.
Criminology.
Welfare state.
Corrections.
Punishment.
Sociology.
Social Theory.
History of France.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Politics of the Welfare State.
Prison and Punishment.
Sociology, general.