Writer and curator Adam HajYahia invites participants to collectively reflect on historical conditions and developments of debt and indebtedness as a framework to understand colonial structures of capital accumulation and racial bondage. By reading sections from Unpayable Debt by Denise Ferreira da Silva, alongside prison writings by Walid Daqqa and Layan Kayed, this Session will engage debt and indebtedness as temporal, psychic, and economic categories. This Session asks: What are the limitations that debt shores up to questions of repair? How does favoring the metaphysicality of indebtedness (over its materiality) open up alternative historical conceptions? What capacities does art, and aesthetic form more broadly, allow for in staging economic relations of debt?

Required readings will be shared upon registration.