associate professor of political theory | loyola marymount university
My rather long(ish) essay, “Carceral enjoyments and killjoying the social life of social death” is out this month in Kelly Struthers Montford and Chloë Taylor’s new volume, Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice (out now from Routledge!).
Rather than try to summarize, here’s an overview from the essay itself:
Continue reading “New Essay: “Carceral enjoyments and killjoying the social life of social death””It’s been out for a few months now, but I’m still happy to (re)announce that Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition has been released in a far more affordable paperback edition by Palgrave. You can order it direct from the publisher for $40 (USD).
Hopefully this makes Active Intolerance more usable for teaching and gets it into the hands of more folks. Moreover, if you are interested in getting a copy to someone on the inside, please let me know and I’ll be happy to help in any way that I can!
Also, the introductory chapter (by Perry Zurn and myself) is still available for free online.
Online (fully open access!) and in print (contact me if you want a copy and we’ll figure out how to get you one. And if you want to get a copy to someone on the inside, we can work on that as well!).
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.
If you’re in the Philly/Glassboro area this week, I’ll be giving a lecture on Feb. 23rd at Rowan University as part of their Theorizing at Rowen series, entitled, “Abolitionist Killjoys and the Social Life of Social Death.”
Last year, I had the honor and great pleasure of talking with Harsha Walia about her amazing work and her book, Undoing Border Imperialism. An edited version of the conversation is now up online over at Abolition Journal’s website (and will be included in the forthcoming inaugural issue of the journal later this year).
So, have a read at “Dismantle & Transform: On Abolition, Decolonization, & Insurgent Politics (A Conversation with Harsha Walia).”
My deepest thanks to Harsha for the talk and to the folks at Abolition Journal for hosting.
Apparently, it’s deep discount time on books that I worked on:
(1) You can snag Punishment and Inclusion for $15 direct from Fordham University Press right now with their spring sale code FUP-SPRING-2016.
(2) Even better: until May 18, you can also get the normally over-priced Active Intolerance for an almost reasonable $50 with code PHU16P.
Until the end of 2015, deep discounts are available on both of my books if you order direct:
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.
I have a modest contribution in Death and Other Penalties: Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration (Fordham University Press, 2015), brilliantly edited by Geoffrey Adelsberg, Lisa Guenther, and Scott Zeman. Print copies are now out as well as ebook editions. My deepest thanks to the editors for including my essay and letting my work sit alongside such amazing other contributors!
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