LOOTING
Featuring a conversation between Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, Rinaldo Walcott, (mod.) Vicky Osterweil, “Looting” is conceptualized as an expression of black socialities antagonism with the modern institution of private property and the civil subject of politics given form through it. More than a discontent with the lack of access to things, Looting is introduced as a practice of destituting capitals violent imposition of need as a “laboratory of managed depletion.”
Editors: Andreas Petrossiants and Jose Rosales
Publisher: Diversity of Aesthetics
Published: 2023
Format: Paperback
Size: 4.625 inches (width) x 7.75 inches
Page count: 64
price: 15eu
Featuring a conversation between Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, Rinaldo Walcott, (mod.) Vicky Osterweil, “Looting” is conceptualized as an expression of black socialities antagonism with the modern institution of private property and the civil subject of politics given form through it. More than a discontent with the lack of access to things, Looting is introduced as a practice of destituting capitals violent imposition of need as a “laboratory of managed depletion.”
Editors: Andreas Petrossiants and Jose Rosales
Publisher: Diversity of Aesthetics
Published: 2023
Format: Paperback
Size: 4.625 inches (width) x 7.75 inches
Page count: 64
price: 15eu
We don’t call accumulation looting or theft because we have other language for it: the historical conditions for the reproduction of capitalism.
Saidiya Hartman
Saidiya Hartman
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Diversity of Aesthetics
Diversity of Aesthetics