In Frames of War (2009) Butler, Judith argues that grievability is the presupposition of a life that matters. Indeed, she will go so far as to say a life that is not grievable is something living that is other than life. In wartime, for example, the enemy dead are often depicted as ungrievable---their lives only matter insofar as they are dead. Butler argues that the apprehension of grievability is a precondition of the perception of precarity (in war, the enemy, no matter how vulnerable to attack they may be, are never portrayed as existing precariously). Her aim is to provide a way of rethinking some of the key moral and ethical pillars in the debates that have emerged over the past couple of decades relating to the âright to lifeâ---not just with regards abortion, but also voluntary euthanasia. Specifically she wants to reverse the usual line of argument that holds that all life is worth living, i.e., worth saving because it is âlifeâ, and instead argue that it is only because we would grieve the absence of that life that it is worth saving. Therefore, grief is the precondition of the life worth saving and not life itself (or what agency calls bare life). Our ethical obligations are, she says, to the conditions that make life grievable, not to life itself. This is because without that grievability we would not be moved to want to sustain life in the first place. Groupe dâInformation sur les Prisons (GIP, Group for Information on Prisons) Established in 1970 by Foucault, Michel in collaboration with Jean-Marie Domenach and Pierre Vidal-Naquet for the purpose of distributing information about conditions in French prisons. It was not primarily a prison-reform advocacy group, though of course its purpose in making known the terrible conditions in which prisoners were forced to live was to foster the call for change. Operating in the age before email and the Internet, the various members of the group gathered information by interviewing prisoners, their wives, and guards, and distributing the results of their research via samizdat pamphlets. The group attracted as members such luminaries as Deleuze, Gilles, Jean Genet, and Sartre, Jean-Paul. Further Reading: D. Macey The Lives of Michel Foucault (1993).