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Ruth Wilson Gilmore w/ Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar

The Dig

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The Prison Industrial Complex and the Anti State State

Ruthe: The prison industrial complex is an attempt to fix major problems that appear materially and ideologically as surpluses of finance, capital, land, labor and state capacity. Ruthe: When a system goes into a crisis, it means that it can't get through to its next day or its next round of whatever that it used to do. And that surplus means that people time is no longer needed within the formerly existing social system.

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