Active Intolerance Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, a
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. I
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INTOLERANCE MICHEL FOUCAULT, THE PRISONS INFORMATION GROUP, AND THE FUTURE OF ABOLITION
EDITED BY PERRY ZURN AND ANDREW DILTS
Active Intolerance
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Active Intolerance Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition
Edited by
Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts
Palgrave
macmillan
ACTIVE INTOLERANCE
Selection and editorial content © Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts 2016 Individual chapters © their respective contributors 2016 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-51066-2 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission. In accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 2016 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of Nature America, Inc., One New York Plaza, Suite 4500, New York, NY 10004-1562. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world.
ISBN 978-1-349-55286-3 E-PDF ISBN: 978–1–137–51067–9 DOI: 10.1057/9781137510679
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Active intolerance : Michel Foucault, the prisons information group, and the future of abolition / edited By Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Foucault, Michel, 1926–1984. 2. Groupe d’information sur les prisons. 3. Prisons—France—History. 4. Imprisonment—Philosophy. 5. Imprisonment. I. Zurn, Perry, 1981– editor. II. Dilts, Andrew, editor. HV9667.A28 2015 365⬘.944—dc23 2015020691 A catalogue record for the book is available from the British Library.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
List of Abbreviations
xi
Foreword Bernard Harcourt
xv
Active Intolerance: An Introduction Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts
Part I
1
History: The GIP and Foucault in Context
1
The Abolition of Philosophy Ladelle McWhorter
23
2
The Untimely Speech of the GIP Counter-Archive Lynne Huffer
41
3
Conduct and Power: Foucault’s Methodological Expansions in 1971 Colin Koopman
4
Work and Failure: Assessing the Prisons Information Group Perry Zurn
Intolerable 1 Abu-Ali Abdur’Rahman
59 75 92
Part II Body: Resistance and the Politics of Care 5
Breaking the C
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