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THE POLITICS OF INDEBTEDNESS

Added 05/31/11
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THE POLITICS OF INDEBTEDNESS

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The Politics of Indebtedness Richard Dienst, Jeremy Glick, Randy Martin & Bruce Robbins The credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums involved defy understanding. On a human level, what does such an enormous degree of debt and insolvency mean? In this timely book, cultural critic Richard Dienst considers the financial crisis, global poverty, media politics and radical theory to parse the various implications of a world where man is born free but everywhere is in debt. Written with humor and verve, Bonds of Debt ranges across subjects%mdashsuch as Obama%rsquos national security strategy, the architecture of Prada stores, press photos of Bono, and a fairy tale told by Karl Marx%mdashto capture a modern condition founded on fiscal imprudence. Moving beyond the dominant pieties and widespread anxieties surrounding the topic, Dienst re-conceives the world%rsquos massive financial obligations as a social, economic, and political bond, where the crushing weight of objectified wealth comes face to face with new demands for equality and solidarity. For this inspired analysis, we are indebted to him. Richard Dienst is the author of Still Life in Real Time: Theory after Televisionand The Bonds of Debt, and a co-editor of Reading the Shape of the World. He teaches in the Department of English at Rutgers University. Jeremy Matthew Glick is an assistant professor in the Hunter College English Department, specializing in African diaporic literature, literary studies approaches to Black radicalism, and modern drama. He is working on a book about the Haitian Revolution and dramatic tragedy and an essay on George Jackson and aphoristic lines of flight in "The Coming Insurrection". He is coeditor of *Another World is Possible: Conversations in a Time of Terror" and has written extensively on the poetics of Amiri Baraka and Black liberation movement political prisoners in the United States. He is cowriter of the documentary film "Dead Prez: Its Bigger Than Hip Hop". Randy Martin is professor and chair of art and public policy at NYU. He is author of a number of books including On Your Marx: Relinking Socialism and the Left; Financialization of Daily Life; An Empire of Indifference: American War and the Financial Logic of Risk Management; and most recently, Under New Management: Universities, Administrative Labor and the Professional Turn. Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.