From riot to the book: the experience of the Prison Information Group at the origin of Discipline and Punish
Abstract
Michel Foucault's experience of political militancy in the Prison Information Group (GIP) during the years 1971-1972, which coincides with a cycle of prisons rebellions in France, had a decisive influence on the perspective that the philosopher later adopted when writing his on prison Discipline and Punish. The present study is developed considering three of the causal lines, both theoretical and political, that overdetermine the appearance of this new perspective: 1. The French Maoism, 2. The black movement in the United States and 3. The Parisian artistic avant-garde. The convergence of these three lines will make possible the “impossible identification” that is at the basis of the GIP-Event.
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