Prison-Museum-Zoo

Foucault explored the logic of the hospital, asylum, and prison, but not the zoo or museum. Curator Risa Puleo shows how the museum operates through capture and the prison through collection in her research into the museum’s history of collecting people-as-objects. Theorist Che Gossett connects the prison to the zoo, forging connections between black radical thinking and critical animal studies to understand the caging and mass killing of animal and Black lives.