Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword: Life and Other Responsibilities vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Death and Other Penalties 1
6. Legacies of Slavery
7. Excavating the Sedimentations of Slavery: The Unfinished Project of American Abolition 11
8. From Commodity Fetishism to Prison Fetishism: Slavery, Convict-leasing, and the Ideological Productions of Incarceration 43
9. Maroon Philosophy: An Interview with Russell “Maroon” Shoatz 60
10. Death Penalties
11. In Reality—From the Row 75
12. U.S. Racism and Derrida’s Theologico-Political Sovereignty 83
13. Making Death a Penalty: Or, Making “Good” Death a “Good” Penalty 95
14. Death Penalty “Abolition” in Neoliberal Times: The SAFE California Act and the Nexus of Savings and Security 106
15. On the Inviolability of Human Life 130
16. Rethinking Power and Responsibility
17. Punishment, Desert, and Equality: A Levinasian Analysis 139
18. Prisons and Palliative Politics 158
19. Sovereignty, Community, and the Incarceration of Immigrants 174
20. Without the Right to Exist: Mass Incarceration and National Security 193
21. Prison Abolition and a Culture of Sexual Difference 210
22. Isolation and Resistance
23. Statement on Solitary Confinement 225
24. The Violence of the Supermax: Toward a Phenomenological Aesthetics of Prison Space 230
25. Prison and the Subject of Resistance: A Levinasian Inquiry 250
26. Critical Theory, Queer Resistance, and the Ends of Capture 266
27. Notes 297
28. Bibliography 371
29. List of Contributors 401
30. Index 407