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DESCRIPTION:EMAIL STRIKE.DEBT.BAY.AREA@GMAIL.COM FOR\nZOOM INFO A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE 
 MEETING.\n\nMAX HAIVEN, THE AUTHOR, WILL BE JOINING OUR DISCUSSION IN 
 DECEMBER!\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! 
 (This is a dense and intricate book, so if you want to join in on the 
 discussion in December as opposed to just auditing the discussion and 
 listening to the author we'd ask that you make sure you've read 
 it...)\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\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/2020/11/16/18838495.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Economics Book Group – Revenge Capitalism
LOCATION:Online via Zoom. 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/16/18838495.php
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