ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 describes Foucault’s political reawakening and argues, with Brady Thomas Heiner, for the importance of the inspiration from the American prison movement and the Black Panther Party in this part of Foucault’s work. The author contends that such an influence is palpable in Foucault’s analysis of French artist Paul Rebeyrolle and depicts how it prompts a transgression of the border between theory and practice and even between theory and activism in Foucault’s thought. This move is finally put in relation to the American queer movement calling themselves the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. From a postrepresentational theological perspective, the chapter suggests, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence may be seen as a group of theopolitical activists adding to the expressions of Christianity on the surface of appearances.
