Jackie Wang (2018): Introduction- (pp. 11-98); The Prison Abolitionist Imagination: A
Conversation (pp 296-324), in Carceral Capitalism.
"as soon as the status quo is threatened, the police will be used as an instrument of political repression." p.13
"The a priori association of blackness with guilt and criminality comforts white America by enabling people to believe that black Americans are deserving of their condition and that the livelihoods of whites are in no way bound up with black immiseration." p.14-15
Neoliberalism: "A set of policies and ideological tenets that include the privatisation of public assets; the deregulation or elimination of state services; macroeconomic stabilisation and the discouragement of Keynesian policies; trade liberalisation and financial deregulation; a discursive emphasis on "neutral", efficient and technical solutions to social problems; and the use of market language to legitimise new norms and to neutralise opposition" p.16 (Not this author)
The predatory state: "modulates the dysfunctional aspects of neoliberalism and in particular the realisation problem in the financial sector." p.17
"the collapse of the housing market created a global economic crisis, which led to the loss of revenue for municipalities, which catalysed the creation of municipal fiscal schemes that used the police to plunder residents." p.19
"in the new fiscal environment, police are increasingly taking on the role of directly generating revenue, which ensures that their departments do not suffer extensive budget cutbacks and layoffs when there are municipal revenue shortfalls." p.21
"Given the structural barriers that prevent white Americans from feeling empathy toward black Americans, it's not surprising that draconian policies that criminalise drug use are being scaled back now that drug use is also a "white problem"." p.24
"These financial institutions are selling you indebtedness itself, because borrowed money begets money in the form of interest." p.33
"we are, from an early age, socialised into a form of financial citizenship that compels us to accept indebtedness as inevitable and to constantly engage in self-disciplinary acts that authorise and extend the debt economy" p.34
“as the introduction of digital communication services enables some cash-strapped states to scale back or phase out visitation hours, the prospect of prisoners no longer having any embodied contact with people on the outside worries me” p.37
"we are now witnessing a transformation in the temporality of policing: policing is no longer primarily aimed at effectively responding to crime, but at anticipating and preventing it." p.42
"one reason why algorithms are sometimes racially biased is that some of the factors taken into consideration by these algorithms are proxies for race even when they are not explicitly racialised (such as neighbourhood). Furthermore, predictive tools often enshrine bias because they use datasets that are themselves tarnished by racial bias." p.50
"the problems of underconsumption and the falling rate of profit identified by Cleaver have been temporarily solved (or deferred) by the creation of a debt economy that allows people to consume commodities using borrowed money." p.60
"Predatory lending is a form of bad-faith lending that uses the extension of credit as a method of dispossession." p.69
"Predatory lending exists in many forms, including subprime mortgage loans, student loans for sham for-profit colleges..., car loans" p.70
"Parasitic governance, as a modality of the new racial capitalism, uses five primary techniques: 1) financial states of of exception, 2) automated processing, 3) extraction and looting, 4) confinement, and 5) gratuitous violence (with execution as an extreme manifestation of this technique)." p.70
"Some have argued that the expansion of capitalism necessitates the use of force to expropriate wealth from areas "outside" of its formal sphere." p.77
"The project of dismantling the welfare state was intimately tied to constructing urban black Americans trapped in zones of concentrated poverty as deserving of their situation." p.84-85
"The Juneteenth decree recoded the master-slave relation (between owner and owned) as an employer-worker relation, albeit completely on the terms of the (former) slave owners. Thus, the newly freed black workers - though promised personal rights and the rights of property - were without freedom of contract in that a legal regime emerged to regulate black mobility by criminalising vagrancy." p.87
"as soon as the status quo is threatened, the police will be used as an instrument of political repression." p.13
"The a priori association of blackness with guilt and criminality comforts white America by enabling people to believe that black Americans are deserving of their condition and that the livelihoods of whites are in no way bound up with black immiseration." p.14-15
Neoliberalism: "A set of policies and ideological tenets that include the privatisation of public assets; the deregulation or elimination of state services; macroeconomic stabilisation and the discouragement of Keynesian policies; trade liberalisation and financial deregulation; a discursive emphasis on "neutral", efficient and technical solutions to social problems; and the use of market language to legitimise new norms and to neutralise opposition" p.16 (Not this author)
The predatory state: "modulates the dysfunctional aspects of neoliberalism and in particular the realisation problem in the financial sector." p.17
"the collapse of the housing market created a global economic crisis, which led to the loss of revenue for municipalities, which catalysed the creation of municipal fiscal schemes that used the police to plunder residents." p.19
"in the new fiscal environment, police are increasingly taking on the role of directly generating revenue, which ensures that their departments do not suffer extensive budget cutbacks and layoffs when there are municipal revenue shortfalls." p.21
"Given the structural barriers that prevent white Americans from feeling empathy toward black Americans, it's not surprising that draconian policies that criminalise drug use are being scaled back now that drug use is also a "white problem"." p.24
"These financial institutions are selling you indebtedness itself, because borrowed money begets money in the form of interest." p.33
"we are, from an early age, socialised into a form of financial citizenship that compels us to accept indebtedness as inevitable and to constantly engage in self-disciplinary acts that authorise and extend the debt economy" p.34
“as the introduction of digital communication services enables some cash-strapped states to scale back or phase out visitation hours, the prospect of prisoners no longer having any embodied contact with people on the outside worries me” p.37
"we are now witnessing a transformation in the temporality of policing: policing is no longer primarily aimed at effectively responding to crime, but at anticipating and preventing it." p.42
"one reason why algorithms are sometimes racially biased is that some of the factors taken into consideration by these algorithms are proxies for race even when they are not explicitly racialised (such as neighbourhood). Furthermore, predictive tools often enshrine bias because they use datasets that are themselves tarnished by racial bias." p.50
"the problems of underconsumption and the falling rate of profit identified by Cleaver have been temporarily solved (or deferred) by the creation of a debt economy that allows people to consume commodities using borrowed money." p.60
"Predatory lending is a form of bad-faith lending that uses the extension of credit as a method of dispossession." p.69
"Predatory lending exists in many forms, including subprime mortgage loans, student loans for sham for-profit colleges..., car loans" p.70
"Parasitic governance, as a modality of the new racial capitalism, uses five primary techniques: 1) financial states of of exception, 2) automated processing, 3) extraction and looting, 4) confinement, and 5) gratuitous violence (with execution as an extreme manifestation of this technique)." p.70
"Some have argued that the expansion of capitalism necessitates the use of force to expropriate wealth from areas "outside" of its formal sphere." p.77
"The project of dismantling the welfare state was intimately tied to constructing urban black Americans trapped in zones of concentrated poverty as deserving of their situation." p.84-85
"The Juneteenth decree recoded the master-slave relation (between owner and owned) as an employer-worker relation, albeit completely on the terms of the (former) slave owners. Thus, the newly freed black workers - though promised personal rights and the rights of property - were without freedom of contract in that a legal regime emerged to regulate black mobility by criminalising vagrancy." p.87
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