Unpayable Debt

By Denise Ferreira da Silva

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3956795423
• ISBN13: 9783956795428
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.2" x 7.9"