摘要：Serge 's poet ic phrase , "in time flesh will wear out chains," 1 is arresting and full of hope . Hearing it, though, can provoke such puzzlement that even while draw ing us forward we s tumble in disbelief. What could be the meanings of these words by Serge, who himself suf fered prison s under regimes of both a capitalist France and the Bolshevik Soviet Union . A similar mix of puzzlement, hope and disbelief may also attend the claim of this paper . I will be arguing here, that, " the flesh " of people who bear the "chains" of U. S. mass incarceration, can be theorized as decolonizing power for resisting the system ic apparatus of plexiglass and razor wire, of concrete wall s and guarded bodies , of brutally racist and economically exploitative society, surveillance technology and U.S . militarist nationalism, the ideologies and constructs of both class and religious formation – all of these being constituent parts of the engine of coloniality driv ing U.S. mass incarceration .
