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A groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the
Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose
France's inhumane treatment of prisoners Founded by Michel Foucault
and others in 1970-71, the Prisons Information Group (GIP)
circulated information about the inhumane conditions within the
French prison system. Intolerable makes available for the first
time in English a fully annotated compilation of materials produced
by the GIP during its brief but influential existence, including an
exclusive new interview with GIP member Helene Cixous and writings
by Gilles Deleuze and Jean Genet. These archival documents-public
announcements, manifestos, reports, pamphlets, interventions, press
conference statements, interviews, and round table
discussions-trace the GIP's establishment in post-1968 political
turmoil, the new models of social activism it pioneered, the prison
revolts it supported across France, and the retrospective
assessments that followed its denouement. At the same time,
Intolerable offers a rich, concrete exploration of Foucault's
concept of resistance, providing a new understanding of the arc of
his intellectual development and the genesis of his most
influential book, Discipline and Punish. Presenting the account of
France's most vibrant prison resistance movement in its own words
and on its own terms, this significant and relevant collection also
connects the approach and activities of the GIP to radical prison
resistance movements today.
From Almanac of Fall (1984) to The Turin Horse (2011), renowned
Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr has followed the collapse of the
communist promise. The "time after" is not the uniform and morose
time of those who no longer believe in anything. It is the time
when we are less interested in histories and their successes or
failures than we are in the delicate fabric of time from which they
are carved. It is the time of pure material events against which
belief will be measured for as long as life will sustain it.
On the complex aesthetics and ontology at work in Etienne Souriau's
unique oeuvre In this concise but expansive exegesis of the
philosophical aesthetics of Etienne Souriau, philosopher David
Lapoujade provides a lucid introduction to many of the key concepts
underpinning Souriau's existential pluralism. Among the various
modes of existence that populate a world, Souriau grants particular
importance to virtual beings-the lesserexistences. Always taking
the form of a sketch or an outline, the perfection of such
existences lies precisely in the incompletion with which they imbue
all reality. They exist with a problematizing force, posing
questions and inviting the establishment of an "art" that would
make them more real. And yet, for this to happen, another existence
must first see them-must be capable of hearing their appeals-and
must be willing to defend their right to exist. Through discussions
of modern art ranging from the dispossessed characters of Kafka and
Beckett to the grids of Agnes Martin and the protographies of Oscar
Munoz, Lapoujade leads the reader into a complex philosophical
world, brimming with modal existences and animated by a unique
conception of creative processes, where the philosopher as artist
or artist as philosopher becomes an advocate, defending the right
of certain realities to gain in existence. For Souriau, nothing is
given in advance, everything is a work in the making: such is the
instaurative practice that grounds his entire oeuvre.
A groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the
Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose
France's inhumane treatment of prisoners Founded by Michel Foucault
and others in 1970-71, the Prisons Information Group (GIP)
circulated information about the inhumane conditions within the
French prison system. Intolerable makes available for the first
time in English a fully annotated compilation of materials produced
by the GIP during its brief but influential existence, including an
exclusive new interview with GIP member Helene Cixous and writings
by Gilles Deleuze and Jean Genet. These archival documents-public
announcements, manifestos, reports, pamphlets, interventions, press
conference statements, interviews, and round table
discussions-trace the GIP's establishment in post-1968 political
turmoil, the new models of social activism it pioneered, the prison
revolts it supported across France, and the retrospective
assessments that followed its denouement. At the same time,
Intolerable offers a rich, concrete exploration of Foucault's
concept of resistance, providing a new understanding of the arc of
his intellectual development and the genesis of his most
influential book, Discipline and Punish. Presenting the account of
France's most vibrant prison resistance movement in its own words
and on its own terms, this significant and relevant collection also
connects the approach and activities of the GIP to radical prison
resistance movements today.
What relation is there between the existence of a work of art and
that of a living being? Between the existence of an atom and that
of a value like solidarity? These questions become our own each
time a reality-whether it is a piece of music, someone we love, or
a fictional character-is established and begins to take on an
importance in our lives. Like William James or Gilles Deleuze,
Souriau methodically defends the thesis of an existential
pluralism. There are indeed different manners of existing and even
different degrees or intensities of existence: from pure phenomena
to objectivized things, by way of the virtual and the
"super-existent," to which works of art and the intellect, and even
morality, bear witness. Existence is polyphonic, and, as a result,
the world is considerably enriched and enlarged. Beyond all that
exists in the ordinary sense of the term, it is necessary to allow
for all sorts of virtual and ephemeral states, transitional realms,
and barely begun realities, still in the making, all of which
constitute so many "inter-worlds."
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