Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the
biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the
political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing. 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. Parasitic
governance, Wang argues, operates through five primary techniques:
financial states of exception, automation, extraction and looting,
confinement, and gratuitous violence. While these techniques of
governance often involve physical confinement and the
state-sanctioned execution of black Americans, new carceral modes
have blurred the distinction between the inside and outside of
prison. As technologies of control are perfected, carcerality tends
to bleed into society.
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