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Unpayable Debt

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Unpayable Debt
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Denise Ferreira Da Silva
SeriesSternberg Press / The Antipolitical
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:328
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 133
Category/GenreTheory of art
ISBN/Barcode 9783956795428
Audience
General
Illustrations 15 B&W ILLUS.

Publishing Details

Publisher Sternberg Press
Imprint Sternberg Press
Publication Date 23 August 2022
Publication Country United States

Description

Coloniality, raciality, and global capitalism from a black feminist "poethical" perspective.Unpayable Debt examines the relationships among coloniality, raciality, and global capital from a black feminist "poethical" perspective. 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.

Author Biography

Denise Ferreira da Silva is Professor and Director of the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She is also a Visiting Professor at the School of Law at Birkbeck, University of London.