Am really exited to be a part of a great roundtable this weekend at the 2017 meeting of philoSOPHIA, Resistant Affects: On Building Active Intolerance Against the Intolerable, at Florida Atlantic University.
The panel will feature presentations from Natalie Cisneros (U. Seattle), Andrea Pitts (UNC-Charlotte), Falguni Sheth (Emory), Perry Zurn (American U.), and myself. It will be moderated by Kyoo Lee (CUNY). We’re going to be building on (and moving beyond) the work in the book that Perry and I co-edited, Active Intolerance (which features chapters from Cisneros, Sheth, and Zurn). This panel tries to continue a line of questioning that Perry and I keep coming back to: what precisely did the GIP mean when they insisted that their work was to heighten intolerance, to embrace a seemingly illiberal virtue and direct it toward intolerable institutions? The GIP, on the first page of their 1971 publication Intolerable 1: An Inquiry into 20 Prisons, succinctly listed some of these: “the courts, the cops, the hospitals and asylums, school, military service, the press, the state, and above all the prisons.” But surely, this list is not enough. And surely, we must do more than simply make such a list. This is what we’ll be thinking about.
The event is open to the public, so please come and join us.
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