Unpayable debt

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.

Record details

ISBN: 3956795423
ISBN: 9783956795428
Physical Description: 324 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Publisher: London : Sternberg Press, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Future perfect -- Chapter 1. "Not even by the law here" -- Chapter 2. "the most perfect hallucination" -- Chapter 3. "a foreign language" -- Chapter 4. "where flesh joined with plaster" -- Past perfect.