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Denise Ferreira Da Silva, "Unpayable Debt" (Sternberg Press, 2022)

New Books in Critical Theory

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What Is Unpayable Debt?

The book is called unpayable debt. Unpayable debt is a debt that one carries, but it's not one's to pay. The phrase came back to me when I was looking at the situation of black persons and families who are blamed for a crisis caused by other people profiting from their inability to pay mortgages. So in addition to what I said that an ampeable debt that that that one owns, but it'm not ones to pay with the phrase ampeable that I am trying to capture the how the circumstances in particular, they should maybe I shouldn't say circumstances. How, how they in fact, okay, that's one of those that the question got lost

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