Research Catalog

Carceral capitalism

Title
Carceral capitalism / Jackie Wang.
Author
Wang, Jackie
Publication
  • South Pasadena, CA : Semiotext(e) [2018]
  • Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by The MIT Press, [2018]
  • ©2018

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

2 Items

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

TextUse in library Sc C 19-78Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

TextUse in library JFC 19-271Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

Details

Description
359 pages; 18 cm
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.
Series Statement
Semiotext(e) Intervention Series ; 21
Uniform Title
Semiotext(e) intervention series ; 21.
Subject
  • Fees, Administrative > United States
  • Costs (Law) > United States
  • Fines (Penalties) > United States
  • Capitalism > Social aspects > United States > 21st century
  • African Americans > Effect of imprisonment on
  • Imprisonment > Social aspects > United States
  • Costs (Law)
  • Fees, Administrative
  • Fines (Penalties)
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes selected bibliography (pages 345-354).
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.
Call Number
Sc C 19-78
ISBN
  • 9781635900026
  • 1635900026
LCCN
2018299140
OCLC
1025343349
Author
Wang, Jackie, author.
Title
Carceral capitalism / Jackie Wang.
Publisher
South Pasadena, CA : Semiotext(e) [2018]
Distributor
Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by The MIT Press, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Semiotext(e) Intervention Series ; 21
Semiotext(e) intervention series ; 21.
Bibliography
Includes selected bibliography (pages 345-354).
Research Call Number
Sc C 19-78
JFC 19-271
View in Legacy Catalog