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DESCRIPTION:EMAIL STRIKE.DEBT.BAY.AREA@GMAIL.COM FOR\nZOOM INFO A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE 
 MEETING.\n\nStrike Debt Bay Area hosts a non-technical book group 
 discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Previous readings 
 have included Doughnut Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital 
 and Its Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, and 
 The Deficit Myth.\n\nFor our October discussion we will be reading the 
 first two chapters of  ‘Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the 
 Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts' by Max Haiven (You 
 can order it from Pluto Press.)\n\nFor our November discussion we'll be 
 reading the third and fourth chapters, and for our December discussion 
 we'll read the final chapters and closing material.\n\nJoin us – all are 
 welcome!\n\nCapitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere 
 dispassionate cruelty of 'ordinary' structural violence, it appears today 
 as a global system bent on reckless economic revenge; its expression found 
 in mass incarceration, climate chaos, unpayable debt, pharmaceutical 
 violence and the relentless degradation of common life.\n\nIn Revenge 
 Capitalism, Max Haiven argues that this economic vengeance helps us explain 
 the culture and politics of revenge we see in society more broadly. Moving 
 from the history of colonialism and its continuing effects today, he 
 examines the opioid crisis in the US, the growth of 'surplus populations' 
 worldwide and unpacks the central paradigm of unpayable debts - both as 
 reparations owed, and as a methodology of oppression.\n\nRevenge 
 Capitalism offers no easy answers, but is a powerful call to the radical 
 imagination.\n\n\nMax Haiven is Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social 
 Justice at Lakehead University, Canada. His books include Art after Money, 
 Money after Art (Pluto, 2018), Crises of Imagination, Crises of 
 Power (Zed Books, 2004), Cultures of Financialization (Palgrave 
 MacMillan, 2014) and the Radical Imagination (Zed Books, 2014).\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/11/18837472.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Economics Book Group – Revenge Capitalism
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/11/18837472.php
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