Intolerable, Book Launch

Perry Zurn (American University)

Michel Foucault, the GIP archives, and prison abolition today

The Prisons Information Group (GIP) was a radical French prison resistance network (1970's), in which Michel Foucault was involved. Join us in marking the long-awaited release of <a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/intolerable" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Intolerable</a>, the GIP archives in English translation. A prescient reminder of carceral violence and the power of resistance.

Moderators: <ul><li><a href="https://las.depaul.edu/academics/philosophy/faculty/Pages/kevin-thompson.aspx" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kevin Thompson</a> (DePaul University) </li><li><a href="https://www.perryzurn.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Perry Zurn</a> (American University)</li></ul>Speakers: <ul><li><a href="https://www.liatbenmoshe.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Liat Ben-Moshe</a> (University of Illinois, Chicago)</li><li><a href="https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/bernard-e-harcourt" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Bernard Harcourt </a>(Columbia University)</li><li><a href="https://www.mtholyoke.edu/people/ren-yo-hwang" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ren-Yo Hwang</a> (Mount Holyoke College)</li><li><a href="https://clas.ucdenver.edu/philosophy/sarah-tyson" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sarah Tyson</a> (University of Colorado, Denver)</li><li><a href="https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/dv2122.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Delio Vásquez</a> (New York University)</li></ul>Register to receive Zoom link before the event.

Now available!<a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/intolerable" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980)</a> (University of Minnesota Press, 2021).Edited by <a href="https://las.depaul.edu/academics/philosophy/faculty/Pages/kevin-thompson.aspx" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kevin Thompson</a> and <a href="https://www.perryzurn.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Perry Zurn</a>. Translated by <a href="https://www.perryzurn.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Perry Zurn</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/erikberanek?lang=en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Erik Beranek</a>. A groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France’s inhumane treatment of prisonersFounded by Michel Foucault and others in 1970–71, the Prisons Information Group (GIP) circulated information about the inhumane conditions within the French prison system. Intolerable makes available for the first time in English a fully annotated compilation of materials produced by the GIP during its brief but influential existence, including an exclusive new interview with GIP member Hélène Cixous and writings by Gilles Deleuze and Jean Genet.Reviews:A significant book that is both long overdue and a timely intervention in contemporary debates about police and prison abolition and reform. — Stuart Elden, author of The Early FoucaultIntolerable contributes to incarceration studies by highlighting the contributions (and pointing to the contradictions) of the Prisons Information Group (GIP). By emphasizing the activism of the GIP, it demonstrates how the author and theorist as an academic activist was influenced by the militancy of political actors and revolutionaries who took great risks, especially as incarcerated intellectuals and rebels, to challenge repression structured by racial/colonial capitalism and captivity.— Joy James, author of Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader

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