Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn on Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group

A conversation with Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, editors of Intolerable, the new collection of speeches, pamphlets, essays, and manifestos by the Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons (Prisons Information Group), published by University of Minnesota Press in late 2021. Discussion ranges from the origins of the project to the history of GIP and the legacy it leaves in post-WWII French thought to contemporary and transnational resonance of its themes.Kevin Thompson teaches in the Department of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, where he publishes widely in 19th and 20th century European thought and is the author of Hegel’s Theory of Normativity (Northwestern 2019). Perry Zurn teaches in the Department of Philosophy at American University in Washington, D.C. and has written extensively on themes of curiosity, prison abolition, Foucault’s critical theory, and is the author of the book Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry (Minnesota 2021).

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