Unpayable debt /
Unpayable Debt examines the relationship between coloniality, raciality and global capital through a black feminist poethical framework. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler's 1979 sci-fi novel Kindred, in which an African American writer is transported back in time to the antebellum South to save her...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Sternberg Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | On the antipolitical ;
v.1. |
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| Summary: | Unpayable Debt examines the relationship between coloniality, raciality and global capital through a black feminist poethical framework. Inspired by Octavia E. Butler's 1979 sci-fi novel Kindred, in which an African American writer is transported back in time to the antebellum South to save her owner-ancestor, Unpayable Debt relates the notion of value to coloniality, both economic and ethical. Focusing on the philosophy behind value, Denise Ferreira da Silva exposes capital as the juridical architecture and ethical grammar of the world. Here, raciality, a symbol of coloniality, justifies deployments of total violence to enable expropriation and land extraction. This is the first volume in the On the Political series. |
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| Physical Description: | 324 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-316) and index. |
| ISBN: | 3956795423 9783956795428 |