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Introduction to Active Intolerance now available for download

ActiveIntolerance-CoverSince I know none of you  can  wait for it, you’ll be happy to know that  the Introductory  chapter of  Active  Intolerance: Michel Foucault, The Prisons Information Group, and the  Future of Abolition  is now  available for download as a PDF direct from, Palgrave Macmillan. The chapter, co-authored by myself and Perry Zurn, sets the stage for the entire collection, introduces readers to the the GIP, and works to re-center our readings of this remarkable group away from merely a footnote to “Foucault Studies.”

Active Intolerance  will be widely available on November 18 of this month, and is already  available for preorder! And for a limited time, you can order direct from  Palgrave and get 30% off the cover price with promo  code PMTHIRTY15.

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Active Intolerance will be out Nov. 18; take 30% off via Palgrave

Active Intolerance-DiscountFlyerActive Intolerance: Michel Foucault, The Prisons Information Group, and the  Future of Abolition,  (co-edited with Perry Zurn of Hampshire College) is set to drop in  print Nov. 18!  It is already  available on amazon for pre-order… or, you can take 30% by ordering directly from  Palgrave with  the code PMTHIRTY15.

Also, I’ll be  speaking at  the University of Richmond next week on  Punishment and Inclusion  and questions of critical prison theory/philosophy.  I’ll post details soon!

Lastly, if you’re going to be at SPEP next week in Atlanta, come and see  the panel with Ladelle McWhorter, Natalie Cisneros, Perry Zurn, and  Dianna Taylor (who are all contributors to the volume) speaking  about  their work in Active  Intolerance:  Screen Shot 2015-09-29 at 2.18.11 PM

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Punishment and Inclusion, reviewed in PoP

I’m really pleased to have been able to take part in a critical dialogue with Banu Bargu about  our respective books. Bargu is author of the award-winning Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia UP, 2014). We reviewed each other’s work, and had a chance to respond to each other’s reviews. This is also the first review in print of Punishment and Inclusion.  The exchange is currently available for free from Perspectives on Politics in their excellent special issue devoted to Prisons and Policing.

 

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Talk at the New School, Feb. 19

Politics Speaker Series Spring 2015Details on the previously announced talk at the New School for Social Research are now available. I’m being hosted by the wonderful folks in the Politics Department as part of their spring speaker series.  I’ll be talking about my book on  Feb. 19, 2015, at 6pm. Details on their full series is attached!

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listed: P&I is 5th best critical theory book of 2014

What I’m most  pleased about  seeing my  book  land  in this  of the top 5 best critical theory books of 2014 is the  company with which it keeps:  Audra Simpson, Glen Coulthard, Sara Ahmed… a pretty incredible  set of folks. And, it’s a  real joy to see  a  “critical theory” list  made up almost entirely of  scholars of color doing  radical theory. That is to say, this  list isn’t made up of the usual suspects.

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talks coming up in spring 2015, Memphis PGSA conference keynote

I’ve added a  page to keep track of upcoming talks and lectures that I will be  giving.  Most of them this spring will be  related to Punishment and  Inclusion, but I’ll be presenting some new work as well at a few places. In particular, I’m really excited to be giving the keynote address  at  the  University of Memphis  Philosophy  Graduate Student  Association Conference,  Beyond  Bars:  The Future of Prisons  in  February. It’s an honor to  be invited  and a true privilege  to get a chance to talk with a bunch of very smart students and faculty there.

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Punishment and Inclusion, three months later

It’s been a few months since Punishment and Inclusion: Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism was released by Fordham University  Press, and it’s been amazing to hear responses and see copies showing up  in the hands of  folks out there in the world.  I’ll be giving a  bunch of talks in the near future about the book (as well as about some new projects that I’ve been working on), but in the meantime, you can follow updates at the Punishment and Inclusion page on facebook, download a copy of the  preface and first chapter to read, and (obviously) pick yourself up a  copy to read  by the fireplace this winter. Thank you  again to everyone that made this possible!

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