Pub Date : 2023-10-15DOI: 10.1177/09213740231206105
Jaime Acosta Gonzalez
This response to Denise Ferreira da Silva’s Unpayable Debt (2022) takes up the question of violence and the role it plays in Karl Marx’s theorization of the capital-labor relation. Ferreira da Silva usefully highlights the way Marx, Rosa Luxemburg and David Harvey posit the violence of primitive accumulation as anterior or external to the theoretical analysis of the scene of value, including the contractual relation between the dramatis personae of the free worker and capitalist, a presupposition of the capitalist mode of production. In response, this engagement works through Marx’s mode of presentation in Capital Vol. 1, arguing that the historical chapters on primitive accumulation in section eight revise and retroactively condition our understanding of the presumptive equality between capitalist and worker. By structuring the depiction of the abstract and theoretical mode of production in this way, Marx’s methodology reveals the overlapping modalities of violence and their immanent relation to the juridical standing of the free worker. This essay closes by reassessing the status of the free worker, as well as Ferreira da Silva’s critique, considering current conditions of neoliberal accumulation.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-15DOI: 10.1177/09213740231206117
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Unpayable Debt seeks to intervene in the collaborative task of assembling of a whole other analytical apparatus and political program. As a composition, it works in that moment. It does some of the groundwork necessary for designing the kind of shift in thinking needed for addressing what this global moment demands from us. In this response to the comments from readers who share in the same project, I highlight how, because the centrality of thinking in the modern context, its contribution to work on the double task, which also includes a treatment of the tools available for analyzing the political context – a task that demands an excavation and a mapping of their conditions of emergence, production, and deployment.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-15DOI: 10.1177/09213740231206103
Michael Hardt
I read Denise Ferreira da Silva’s Unpayable Debt as an experiment that adopts “the wounded captive body in the scene of subjugation” as an epistemological standpoint. This situates her project in line with a tradition of standpoint theories that adopt, for instance, the proletarian or the feminist standpoint in similar ways. These standpoints grant us not only a superior knowledge of the current social order, highlighting its hierarchies, but also provide a political ground for seeking to abolish the structures of domination. Ferreira da Silva’s argument diverges, however, in that her standpoint does not present a subject to be affirmed, as do the other theories, but rather one that must also be abolished. In this sense, I interpret the aim of da Silva’s book to be a double abolition.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-15DOI: 10.1177/09213740231206093
Esther Gabara
This response to Denise Ferreira da Silva’s Unpayable Debt (2022) takes seriously the author’s self-description as a scholar and artist, and so considers the study within a genealogy of contemporary experiments with the book form in the Americas. Unpayable Debt calls for a reader who will assemble its sequence of moments and texts into an accounting of the debt that Western epistemologies, disciplines, and habits of reading owe to the people and cultures subjected to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and to the dispossession and genocide of indigenous peoples. Fiction, distinct from history and the other disciplines that use the written word, proves essential to calculate that liability, and Ferreira da Silva exercises its inventive power in her scholarly critique as much as in videos, performances, and social practice collaborations.
对丹尼斯·费雷拉·达·席尔瓦(Denise Ferreira da Silva)的《无法偿还的债务》(2022)的回应，认真对待了作者作为学者和艺术家的自我描述，因此将研究纳入了美洲当代书籍形式实验的谱系。《无法偿还的债务》要求读者将它的时刻和文本序列组合起来，说明西方认识论、学科和阅读习惯对遭受跨大西洋奴隶贸易的人民和文化的亏欠，以及对土著人民的剥夺和种族灭绝。小说，不同于历史和其他使用文字的学科，被证明是计算责任的关键，费雷拉·达·席尔瓦在她的学术批评中，在视频、表演和社会实践合作中发挥了创造性的力量。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-15DOI: 10.1177/09213740231206094
Nicholas Mirzoeff
This essay asks what is “the image of unpayable debt”? I approach Ferreira da Silva’s assemblage from the angle delineated by Walter Benjamin’s concept of the “image,” a multi-layered composite of time-spaces. I include Benjamin’s weak Messianism, via the democratic debt jubilee, and the general strike reconfigured for the present as the feminist strike against debt. The “image” formed in this process is multiple and sedimented with layers of time-space, containing a caesura. This “break” is comprised of weak Messianism and blackness. The essay concludes by asking how the debt-image can be projected into the world as the general strike.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1177/09213740231191497
Mauri Systo
In Chattanooga, TN, the construction of a fiber optic telecommunications network has led to a tech-based revitalization strategy, and the promotion of entrepreneurial and technical positions within the Downtown. Rather than being a solution for a better labor future, this paper demonstrates how revitalization has served to perpetuate contingent hiring practice across classes and sectors and create contingency in new ones. In focusing on the types of work valorized in public discourse (an educated yet contingent tech sector) and those that remain devalorized (the many ancillary sectors which support tech-based growth) this paper argues for the need for a policy agenda which takes varied labor forms and livelihood strategies into account. The experience of contingency is examined across classes to demonstrate how revitalization discourses and historical discourses perpetuate social disparities despite the connectedness of workers via workforce restructuring.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-10DOI: 10.1177/09213740231183426
M. Safdar, Musarat Yasmin
Muslim women in popular Western imagination have usually been viewed as victims of forced marriages and suppressed individualistic rights to love/desire, and Islam as the primary source of it. The trend has intensified in the post-9/11 gendered Islamophobic spotlight. Anglophone literature by Muslim women writers has countered this monolithic narrative by exploring the multi-layered complexity and fluidity of Muslim womanhood. We aim to examine the subjectivity of Muslim women as explored in Kamila Shamsie’s novel Salt and Saffron regarding love/desire and marriage by drawing on the concepts of performativity and third space to intervene in the discourse of Muslim women’s gender subjectivity. We examine how the female protagonist (Aliya) transforms her consciousness of her rights and cultural norms into her battles for agency and expansive space for choice and decision in love and marriage without open confrontation against and submission to norms. This performative subjective position comes out as inclusive and agentive, re-signifying the norms and the individualist awareness into an indeterminate, third space of enunciation. We foreground the epistemology that interlaces mobility-shaped individualistic awareness and consciousness of norms to contradict the monolithic Muslim woman compliant/victim theoretical frame.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1177/09213740231179401
Zachary Mondesire
South Sudan joined the East African Community (EAC), a regional economic and political organization in 2016. It 2011, it became the newest nation-state in the world when it seceded from Sudan. As a result, the new state of South Sudan is at a crossroads of multiple processes of unification and fragmentation. I analyze this moment of accession as one characterized by both substantive practices of political institution-building and intimate ideas about cultural belonging. In this context, a trans-border cultural imagination has become entangled with technocratic expertise committed to harmonious regional integration. The process of accession represents a broader socio-political formation that contains ideas about family, the colonial legacy, cultural continuity, and geopolitical relationships that are primarily narrated and experienced as transnational. Regional integration has therefore become a site of desire, frustration, futurity, and the production of normative ideals. To address these intersecting processes and ideas, the author develops region-craft and geopolitical intimacy to make sense of how they take shape on multiple scales of social and political life. The broader stakes of this process are making sense of the unequal dynamics of power that I argue emerge as intra-African discourses of asymmetrical competency and paternalism.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1177/09213740231180262
M. Alonso Alonso
This article analyses the first major anthology of English-language British LatinX writers published in the UK, Un Nuevo Sol. British LatinX Writers (flipped eye publishing, 2019). The texts included in this anthology of poetry, short fiction and drama explore the configurations, manifestations and representations of the LatinX experience within the contemporary British canon. The multi-layered texts that form this book illustrate how the British LatinX community represents itself through literature in a distinctive way which also questions existing stereotypes and expectations. Un Nuevo Sol is a good example of the diversity of the literary techniques used by British LatinX authors. These techniques cover from code-switching to magical realism, although realism and experimental writing seem to dominate most of these texts. This is representative of the way in which the literary production of this super-diverse community in the UK results in a super-diverse literary style, as illustrated in this anthology.
本文分析了在英国出版的第一本主要的英国拉丁裔作家选集《Un Nuevo Sol》。英国拉丁裔作家（翻眼出版社，2019）。这本诗歌、短篇小说和戏剧选集中的文本探索了当代英国经典中拉丁裔经历的配置、表现和表征。本书的多层文本说明了英国拉丁裔社区是如何通过文学以一种独特的方式表现自己的，这也质疑了现有的刻板印象和期望。《Un Nuevo Sol》是一个很好的例子，说明了英国拉丁裔作家使用的文学技巧的多样性。这些技巧涵盖了从代码转换到魔幻现实主义，尽管现实主义和实验写作似乎主导了这些文本的大部分。正如本选集所示，这代表了英国这个超级多样化社区的文学创作产生了超级多样化的文学风格。
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