Active Intolerance

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.

"This is a powerful and compelling set of essays exploring the context and legacy of the Prisons Information Group and how their work might be useful today. Decentering Foucault does more than rightly recognize the role of others in this group. It also helps us to understand Foucault's abiding interest in collaboration, an interest that is reflected in both his academic and activist work.' - Stuart Elden, University of Warwick, UK "Active Intolerance is an important collection, one that deepens our philosophical and pragmatic understandings of the promises and compromises of contemporary abolitionist advocacy. Read this volume for contributions that allow us to pace the floor, working on our resistance and conflicted relationships in search of a better future.' Joy James, Williams College, USA, and author of Seeking the Beloved Community "While we often hear about the liberal virtue of tolerance, Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts' powerful and necessary collection makes a compelling case for the active cultivation of intolerance. Active Intolerance convinces us that we need to be intolerant of the prison and of the racist and carceral society of which mass incarceration is the extreme manifestation." - Chloe Taylor, University of Alberta, Canada "Active Intolerance pushes our thinking about prisons, prisoners, public intellectuals, and abolition forward. There is something here for the Foucault scholar and prison abolitionist alike. The scholarship is insightful and it deepens our understanding of the problems of mass incarnation and how to work against it. This book must be reckoned with." - Rashad Shabazz, author of Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity

• 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