{"product_id":"the-weight-of-nightmares-isbn-9781836741688","title":"The Weight of Nightmares","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat if ending racial injustice means transforming not just wealth, but time itself?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMieroop-Al Bahrani explores how capitalism, racism, debt and inheritance operate through a politics of time, where history isn't behind us but actively shapes the now.The demand for reparations has reignited fierce debate by exposing how today's inequalities rest on historical exploitation. This book argues that reparations aren't just about the past, they're about transforming the present by confronting the structures we've inherited.What would it mean to undo capitalism's logic of time and imagine a radically different future? A politics of reparation would reconfigure time itself, opening new narratives and collective possibilities.\u003cb\u003e1 Temporal power\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.A politics of time\u003cbr\u003eII.From a politics to a poetics of time\u003cbr\u003eIII.Reparations talk: a debate across boarders\u003cbr\u003eIV.A longer view of the history of reparations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The historical present as an ideological category\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.The historical present\u003cbr\u003eII.An ideological category\u003cbr\u003eIII.The hermeneutics of racism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Inheriting debt, sin and the curse of Ham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.Intergenerational justice\u003cbr\u003eII.“Ancestral fault”\u003cbr\u003eIII.The Curse of Ham, Original Sin and its critics\u003cbr\u003eIV.Debt and Money\u003cbr\u003eV.National responsibility\u003cbr\u003eVI.The persistence of sin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Value in time and time as value\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.The time value of money\u003cbr\u003eII.The price of reparations, the profitability of slavery and the Williams thesis\u003cbr\u003eIII.The consummate automatic fetish: fictitious capital, derivatives and time\u003cbr\u003eIV.Accounting for value: slavery, money, value and time in Marx\u003cbr\u003eV.Dead labour and the layers of historical development\u003cbr\u003eVI.The homogenization of historical time: money’s functions as an instrument of temporality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Badges and incidents of slavery\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.Retrospective politics?\u003cbr\u003eII.The Structure of racism\u003cbr\u003eIII.Epidermialization: Stuart Hall and the semiotics of “race”\u003cbr\u003eIV.Transforming Traditions: dismantling ethnoracial domination\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 A new temporality?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.The reproduction of the relations of production and ethnoracial domination\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cb\u003eKenan Van De Mieroop-Al Bahrani \u003c\/b\u003eis an author based in Brussels. He is Assistant Professor of History at Leiden University in the Netherlands and co-founder of the International Network for Theory of History.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233765404901,"sku":"NP9781836741688","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781836741688.jpg?v=1767742177","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-weight-of-nightmares-isbn-9781836741688","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}