Full Description
This collection of essays, by some of the most distinguished public intellectuals and cultural critics in America explores various dimensions of what it means to live in the age of debt. They ask, what is the debt age? For that matter, what is debt? Is its meaning transhistorical or transcultural? Or is it imbued in ideology and thus historically contingent? What is the relationship between debt and theory? Whose debt is acknowledged and whose is ignored? Who is the paradigmatic subject of debt? How has debt affected contemporary academic culture? Their responses to these and other aspects of debt are sure to become required reading for anyone who wants to understand what it means to live in the debt age.
Contents
List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; The Debt Age: An Introduction, Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Peter Hitchcock, and Sophia A. McClennen; Part I. Theory and History; 1. The Rights to Debt, Sophia A. McClennen; 2. Kant at the Federal Reserve: On the Aesthetics of Quantitative Easing, Peter Hitchcock; 3. Debt and Sensuality, Christopher Breu; 4. The Indebted Man's Cognitive Mapping: Boundaries and Biohorror in the Neoliberal Debt Economy, Liane Tanguay; Part II. Living in the Debt Age; 5. The Debt Experience, Jeffrey D. Williams; 6. Paying Your Debt to Society: The Neoliberal State and the Logic of Quid Pro Quo, Esther Peeren; 7. Indebted Youth and Neoliberalism, Tyler J. Pollard; 8. Austerity Politics and the Neoliberal Targeting of the Body in Public Education, Kenneth J. Saltman; Part III. Resisting the Debt Age; 9. On Debt Resistance, Jeffrey R. Di Leo; 10. Debt and Financial Literacy Education: An Ethics for Capital or the Other?; 11. Student Debt and the Social Functions of Consolidation College, Christopher Newfield; 12. Confronting the Creditor Class, Andrew Ross; Index
