by Denise Ferreira da Silva
- Author(s)
- Denise Ferreira da Silva.
- Publication
- London : Sternberg, 2022
- Scope
- 328 Pages, 21 cm.
- ISBN
- 9783956795428
In ‘Unpayable Debt’ Ferreira da Silva 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, Ferreira da Silva relates the notion of value to coloniality - both economic and ethical. Focusing on the philosophy behind value, the writer 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.
- Keywords
- critical aesthetics , feminism , racism , decolonisation
- Location
- Cabinet 30 - 1: Slavernij en Kolonialisme ; Facing up to the Past
- Remarks
- Includes notes, bibliography, index
