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. Butlers 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 colonialityboth 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, racialitya symbol of colonialityjustifies deployments of total violence to enable expropriation and land extraction.
This is the first volume in the On the Political series.
Author: Denise Ferreira Da Silva
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Published: 08/23/2022
Series: Sternberg Press / The Antipolitical
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9783956795428
Language: English
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