Unpayable Debt

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: 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