“Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition” explores the Prison Information Group (GIP), an organization founded by notable academics, including Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, to expose the deplorable conditions of the French Prison system. In this interview, I spoke with the book’s editors, Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts, about the legacy and lessons of the GIP.
Category Archives: Books
11 Critical Theory Books Out This Month, May 2016
Ranciere, Sloterdijk, Nancy and more.
11 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in April, 2016
Sartre, Goldman, Deleuze and more.
9 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in March, 2016
Agamben, Guattari and more.
10 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in February, 2016
Jodi Dean, Fredric Jameson and the latest Radical Thinkers set.
Felix Guattari’s Screenplay, A Love of UIQ, Reviewed
“A Love of UIQ,” is the story of humanity’s first contact with an entity known as the “Infra-Quark Universe,” UIQ for short, a being that relays communications via the chloroplasts of tiny phytoplankton.
10 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in January, 2016
New releases from University of Minnesota Press, Verso Books, Stanford University Press and more.
10 Critical Theory Books That Came Out in December, 2015
Foucault, Bataille, Chomsky and more.
Candy Crush and Capitalism, a Review
Is distraction vital to capitalism?
The Figure of the Migrant, an Interview with Thomas Nail
We recently spoke with Thomas Nail, an associate professor at the University of Denver, to talk about his recent book "The Figure of the Migrant."
In it, Nail develops a theory of what he calls kinopolitics and argues that the migrant has become the "political figure of our time."
"Rather than viewing migration as the exception … Continue Reading ››