Response

Abstract

Unpayable Debt seeks to intervene in the collaborative task of assembling of a whole other analytical apparatus and political program. As a composition, it works in that moment. It does some of the groundwork necessary for designing the kind of shift in thinking needed for addressing what this global moment demands from us. In this response to the comments from readers who share in the same project, I highlight how, because the centrality of thinking in the modern context, its contribution to work on the double task, which also includes a treatment of the tools available for analyzing the political context – a task that demands an excavation and a mapping of their conditions of emergence, production, and deployment.