{"product_id":"unpayable-debt-9783956795428","title":"Unpayable Debt","description":"\u003cb\u003eColoniality, raciality, and global capitalism from a black feminist \"poethical\" perspective.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnpayable Debt\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eKindred\u003c\/i\u003e, in which an African-American writer is transported back in time to the antebellum South to save her owner-ancestor, \u003ci\u003eUnpayable Debt\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first volume in the On the Political series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDenise 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sternberg Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614999449874,"sku":"9783956795428","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9d85c4ce-d40f-47a4-b999-4622012c9836.jpg?v=1732471227","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/unpayable-debt-9783956795428","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}