Orange Is the New Black and Philosophy: Last Exit from Litchfield (Popular Culture and Philosophy (92))

This Collection Of 18 Chapters By Talented Philosophical Minds Probes Some Of The Many Lessons To Be Learned From Orange Is The New Black. The Show And The Book That Inspired It Both Dramatically Highlight The Troubling, Stressful Situation Of Millions Of Incarcerated Americans. How Do The Show's Shower Scenes Shed Light On The Classical Mind-body Problem? How Can We Make Our Lives Meaningful When Our Options Are Curtailed By Authority? What Does It Mean To Manipulate Someone, And Why Is It Bad? What Can We Learn About Human Beliefs From Pennsatucky's Notion Of The Gay Agenda? Is Litchfield Prison A Preparation For Life Outside -- Or Just A Scale Model Of Life Outside? What Could The Governors Of Litchfield Learn From Jeremy Bentham And His Panopticon? How Is It That Even In Prison We Find Ourselves Condemned To Be Free? Why Is One Of The Worst Things About Prison Being Forced To See Who And What We Really Are? It So Happens That Life In Prison Is Overfull Of Philosophical Implications. Orange Is The New Black And Philosophy Stays Close To The Characters And Scenes Of The Tv Show, Applying Insights From Ethics, Existentialism, Metaphysics, Epistemology, And Political Philosophy. Machine Generated Contents Note: I.of Course You Are Still Going To Have To Go Through Initiation -- 1.orange Is The New Black Can Change Your Life / Christopher Hoyt -- 2.should We Give A Ship? / Rachel Robison-greene -- Ii.how's This Whole Agenda Thing Work? -- 3.nietzsche And A Trans Woman Walk Into A Prison / Christina A. Diedoardo -- 4.it's Different But The Same / Rod Carveth -- Iii.every Day In This Place I Get More Confused -- 5.prison Is Hell / Christopher Ketcham -- 6.hell Is Other People But Mostly You Too / Courtney Neal -- Iv.i'm A Predator, Bitch. Ain't No Fun If You Offer -- 7.prison As Rehab? Foucault Says No, No, No / Sara Waller -- 8.who's Messing With Your Mind? / Myisha Cherry -- V.to Eat The Chicken That Is Smarter Than Other Chickens -- 9.take A Break From Your Values / Rachel Robison-greene -- 10.you're Not Religious, Okay / Seth M. Walker -- Vi.the Secret Is, Pretend The Salt Is Sugar -- 11.i Am I, Crazy Eyes / Chelsi Barnard Archibald Edited By Richard Greene And Rachel Robison-greene. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 235-237) And Index. This collection of eighteen chapters by talented philosophical minds probes some of the many lessons to be learned from Orange Is the New Black (mostly the addictive Netflix comedy-drama but with some attention to the best-selling real-life book by Piper Kerman). The show and the book that inspired it both dramatically highlight the troubling, stressful situation of millions of incarcerated Americans. How do the show's shower scenes shed light on the classical mind-body problem? How can we make our lives meaningful when our options are curtailed by authority? What does it mean to manipulate someone, and why is it bad? What can we learn about the peculiarity of human beliefs from Pennsatucky's notion of the gay agenda? Is Litchfield Prison a preparation for life outside—or just a scale model of life outside? What could the governors of Litchfield learn from Jeremy Bentham and his panopticon? How is it that even in prison we find ourselves condemned to be free? Why is one of the worst things about prison being forced to see who and what we really are? It so happens that life in prison is absolutely full and overfull of philosophical implications. Orange Is the New Black and Philosophy stays close to the characters and scenes of the TV show, applying insights from ethics, existentialism, metaphysics, epistemology, and political philosophy. The book is aimed at thoughtful fans of this amazingly fine TV show, who want to learn more about its disturbing issues. Contents Thanks Learning from the Insiders I. Of course you are still going to have to go through initiation 1. Orange Is the New Black Can Change Your Life 2. Should We Give a Ship? II. How's this whole 'agenda' thing work? 3. Nietzsche and a Trans Woman Walk into a Prison 4. It's Different but the Same III. Every day in this place I get more confused 5. Prison Is Hell 6. Hell Is Other People but Mostly You Too IV. I'm a predator, bitch. Ain't no fun if you offer 7. Prison as Rehab? Foucault Says, No, No, No 8. Who's Messing with Your Mind? V. To eat the chicken that is smarter than other chickens 9. Take a Break from Your Values 10. You're Not Religious, Okay VI. The secret is, pretend the salt is sugar 11. I Am I, Crazy Eyes 12. You Got THem TV Titties VII. My brain will always be there for you 13. The Chicken and the Egg-sistential Crisis 14. What Friends Are For 15. The Litchfield Prisoner's Dilemma Sugar an Spice and Some Things Not So Nice! References Perpetrators' Rap Sheets Index