Unpayable Debt is a monumental book."Monumental" is not used here as a disposable adjective, rather it implies that the book feels more like a sculpture than a text.Not a lifeless statue that flattens time into a monochrome moment, this book reads like an omni-dimensional memory.As debates over removing statues of slaveholders and other normalizers of racial violence climaxed in summer 2020, Denise Ferreira da Silva was sculpting a lexicoepistemic apparatus for making new knowledge and a new kind of existence-a monumental existence outside today's dominant teleological existence.
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