| Description |
359 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Series |
Semiotext(e) Intervention Series ; 21 |
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Semiotext(e) intervention series ; 21.
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| Bibliography |
Includes selected bibliography (pages 345-354). |
| Summary |
What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living hells. When people are trapped in a cycle of debt it also can affect their subjectivity and how they temporally inhabit the world by making it difficult for them to imagine and plan for the future. What psychic toll does this have on residents? How does it feel to be routinely dehumanized and exploited by the police? -- from Carceral Capitalism. In this collection of essays in Semiotext(e)'s Intervention series, Jackie Wang examines the contemporary incarceration techniques that have emerged since the 1990s. The essays illustrate various aspects of the carceral continuum, including the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, cybernetic governance, and algorithmic policing. Included in this volume is Wang's influential critique of liberal anti-racist politics, "Against Innocence," as well as essays on RoboCop, techno-policing, and the aesthetic problem of making invisible forms of power legible. Wang shows that the new racial capitalism begins with parasitic governance and predatory lending that extends credit only to dispossess later. Predatory lending has a decidedly spatial character and exists in many forms, including subprime mortgage loans, student loans for sham for-profit colleges, car loans, rent-to-own scams, payday loans, and bail bond loans. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Racialized accumulation by dispossession in the age of finance capital : notes on the debt economy -- Policing as plunder : notes on municipal finance and the political economy of fees and fines -- "Packing guns instead of lunches" : biopower and juvenile delinquency -- "This is a story about nerds and cops" : PredPol and algorithmic policing -- The cybernetic cop : RoboCop and the future of policing -- Against innocence : race, gender, and the politics of safety -- The prison abolitionist imagination : a conversation. |
| Subject |
Fees, Administrative -- United States.
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Costs (Law) -- United States.
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Fines (Penalties) -- United States.
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Capitalism -- Social aspects -- United States -- 21st century.
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Imprisonment -- Social aspects.
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Costs (Law) (OCoLC)fst00880739
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Fees, Administrative. (OCoLC)fst00922527
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Fines (Penalties) (OCoLC)fst00924831
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| ISBN |
9781635900026 (paperback) |
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1635900026 (paperback) |
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