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P O P U L A R C U L T U R E A N D P H I L O S O P H Y ® PHILOSOPHY / TV AND FILM POPULAR CULTURE AND PHILOSOPHY® G r e tone walls do not a prison . . . and how you most definitely don’t want to wind up e n ORANGE make, nor iron bars a there, ever!” e a cage. But once you —R OBERT ARP, editor of 1001 Ideas that Changed the n d throw in overflowing Way We Think R toilets, unsympathetic o b staff, violent fellow-inmates, “A bunch of philosophers join you behind the bars of is o arbitrary trips to the SHU, imagination and thinking, and they answer those n - and a supernormal burning questions like, ‘Do you really feel safer with Gr Is BLACK chicken, you’re getting Piper in the slammer?’ and ‘What is exploitation, ee pretty close. anyway, in a world where everyone uses everyone ne the else?’ and ‘What’s for lunch?’ Makes me want to With Orange Is the write a memoir about the time I almost got arrested. O New New Black, the appall- The line between the free and the incarcerated R ing tragedy of America’s is a thin one. But if you want to untangle the vast and exploding incar- A backstories from the parole decisions, this is cerated population has become a touching comedy, your book.” yet one in which the really nasty reality is never far N —R ANDALL E. AUXIER, author of Time, Will, and away. Prison is a microcosm of life itself, and here Purpose: Living Ideas from the Philosophy of G a chain gang of professional thinkers hammers out Josiah Royce the philosophical implications of this unpredictable E television hit. NI RICHARD GREENE is professor of philosophy at s Weber State University and has served as executive e t “Timely, relevant, and binge-worthy reading! Prison wh chair of the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl. Among the e life as seen in Orange Is the New Black is full of philosophical illumination, as this fun book proves many books he has co-edited are Zombies, Vampires, B and Philosophy: New Life for the Undead (2010) and so well. Existential meaning, the power of the L Dexter and Philosophy: Mind over Spatter (2011). state, the mind-body problem, punishment, race RACHEL ROBISON-GREENE is a PhD candidate at A relations, transgendered identity, and the classic UMass Amherst. She co-edited Boardwalk Empire prisoner’s dilemma are some of the tasty items on and Philosophy: Bootleg This Book (2013) and The C this Litchfield menu.” Princess Bride and Philosophy: Inconceivable! (2016). K —WAYNE YUEN, Professor of Philosophy, Ohlone College A “Netflix’s hit women-in-prison series Orange Is N the New Black touches on just about every hot D contemporary philosophical issue you can think of, P and the learned contributors to this collection have H done hard time chipping away at them. 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SILEM MOHAMMAD, Associate Professor of P $19.95 H English and Writing, Southern Oregon University Y Last Exit from Litchfield “From the Nietzschean Übermensch mentality to the epitomization of Sartre’s claim that ‘Hell is other people’ to, of course, the Prisoner’s Dilemma, this Edited by Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene book will get you to think about life in the Big House This book has not been prepared, authorized, or endorsed by the creators or producers of Orange Is the New Black Orange Is Philosophy 6th pages_Layout 1 8/3/15 2:20 PM Page i Orange Is the New Black and Philosophy Orange Is Philosophy 6th pages_Layout 1 8/3/15 2:20 PM Page ii Popular Culture and Philosophy® Series Editor: George A. Reisch VOLUME1 Seinfeld and Philosophy: VOLUME54The Onion and Philosophy: Fake VOLUME79Frankenstein and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing News Story True, Alleges Indignant Area The Shocking Truth(2013) Edited by (2000) Professor(2010) Edited by Sharon M. 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Orange Is Philosophy 6th pages_Layout 1 8/3/15 2:20 PM Page iii Popular Culture and Philosophy® Orange Is the New Black and Philosophy Last Exit from Litchfield EDITED BY RICHARD GREENE AND RACHEL ROBISON-GREENE and SHAUN P. YOUNG OPEN COURT Chicago Orange Is Philosophy 6th pages_Layout 1 8/3/15 2:20 PM Page iv Volume 92 in the series, Popular Culture and Philosophy®, edited by George A. Reisch To find out more about Open Court books, call toll-free 1-800-815-2280, or visit our website at www.opencourtbooks.com. Open Court Publishing Company is a division of Carus Publishing Company, dba Cricket Media. Copyright © 2015 by Carus Publishing Company, dba Cricket Media First printing 2015 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, me- chanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, Open Court Publishing Company, 70 East Lake Street, Suite 800, Chicago, Illinois 60601. Printed and bound in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-8126-9899-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015943817 Orange Is Philosophy 6th pages_Layout 1 8/3/15 2:20 PM Page v For Kristin Greene and Cheryl Hughes Orange Is Philosophy 6th pages_Layout 1 8/3/15 2:20 PM Page vi Orange Is Philosophy 6th pages_Layout 1 8/3/15 2:20 PM Page vii Contents Thanks ix Learning from the Insiders xi I Of course you are still going to have to go through initiation 1 1. Orange Is the New Black Can Change Your Life CHRISTOPHER HOYT 3 2. Should We Give a Ship? RACHEL ROBISON-GREENE 17 II How’s this whole ‘agenda’ thing work? 27 3. Nietzsche and a Trans Woman Walk into a Prison CHRISTINAA. DIEDOARDO, ESQ. 29 4. It’s Different but the Same ROD CARVETH 41 III Every day in this place I get more confused 53 5. Prison Is Hell CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM 55 6. Hell Is Other People but Mostly You Too COURTNEY NEAL 71 vii Orange Is Philosophy 6th pages_Layout 1 8/3/15 2:20 PM Page viii Contents IV I’m a predator, bitch. Ain’t no fun if you offer 81 7. Prison as Rehab? Foucault Says No, No, No JEFFREY E. STEPHENSONAND SARAWALLER 83 8. Who’s Messing with Your Mind? MYISHA CHERRY 95 V To eat the chicken that is smarter than other chickens 107 9. Take a Break from Your Values RACHEL ROBISON-GREENE 109 10.You’re Not Religious, Okay SETH M. WALKER 123 VI The secret is, pretend the salt is sugar 137 11.I Am I, Crazy Eyes CHELSI BARNARDARCHIBALD 139 12. You Got Them TV Titties STEPHEN FELDER 157 VII My brain will always be there for you 171 13. The Chicken and the Egg-sistential Crisis LEIGH DUFFY 173 14. What Friends Are For CHARLENE ELSBYAND ROB LUZECKY 189 15.The Litchfield Prisoner’s Dilemma RICHARD GREENE 201 Sugar and Spice and Some Things Not So Nice! 211 References 235 Perpetrators’ Rap Sheets 239 Index 245 viii Orange Is Philosophy 6th pages_Layout 1 8/3/15 2:20 PM Page ix Thanks W orking on this project has been a pleasure, in no small part because of the many fine folks who have as- sisted us along the way. In particular a debt of grati- tude is owed to David Ramsay Steele and George Reisch at Open Court, Greta Gusteva Martela, the con- tributors to this volume, and our respective academic departments at UMass Amherst and Weber State Uni- versity. Finally, we’d like to thank those family mem- bers, students, friends, and colleagues with whom we’ve had fruitful and rewarding conversations on various aspects of all things Orange Is the New Black as it re- lates to philosophical themes.
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