Unpayable Debt 

Denise Ferreira da Silva

• Title

  Unpayable Debt 

• Date 2022
• ISBN 9783956795428
• Publisher London, UK: Sternberg Press
• Description 328 p.; 7 in.; b/w ill.
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, inseparable assembly Reading Room
• Summary

  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. (MIT Press)

• Tags Critical theory, Black Studies, Race, Speculative fiction, Feminism and Feminist theory