Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Active Intolerance: An Introduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
The Abolition of Philosophy....Pages 23-40
The Untimely Speech of the GIP Counter-Archive....Pages 41-58
Conduct and Power: Foucault’s Methodological Expansions in 1971....Pages 59-74
Work and Failure: Assessing the Prisons Information Group....Pages 75-91
Intolerable 1....Pages 92-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Breaking the Conditioning: The Relevance of the Prisons Information Group....Pages 95-104
Between Discipline and Caregiving: Changing Prison Population Demographics and Possibilities for Self-Transformation....Pages 105-121
Unruliness without Rioting: Hunger Strikes in Contemporary Politics....Pages 123-140
Intolerable 2....Pages 141-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Disrupted Foucault: Los Angeles’ Coalition Against Police Abuse (CAPA) and the Obsolescence of White Academic Raciality....Pages 145-168
Investigations from Marx to Foucault....Pages 169-185
The GIP as a Neoliberal Intervention: Trafficking in Illegible Concepts....Pages 187-201
The Disordering of Discourse: Voice and Authority in the GIP....Pages 203-221
Intolerable 3....Pages 222-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Beyond Guilt and Innocence: The Creaturely Politics of Prisoner Resistance Movements....Pages 225-240
Resisting “Massive Elimination”: Foucault, Immigration, and the GIP....Pages 241-257
“Can They Ever Escape?” Foucault, Black Feminism, and the Intimacy of Abolition....Pages 259-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-297