“Curiosity as Strategy and as Tactic” 

Perry Zurn (American University)

Perry Zurn is an assistant professor of philosophy and affiliate faculty in the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies at American University. He researches in political philosophy, critical theory, and transgender studies. Zurn is the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry (2021) and the co-author of Curious Minds: The Power of Connection (MIT Press, forthcoming 2022). He is also the co-editor of Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (2016), Carceral Notebooks Volume 12 (2017), Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge (2020), and Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group, 1970–1980 (2021).