A review by frogwithlittlehammer
Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang

informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

To paraphrase Fiona Apple, if you think abolition discourse is muddled butter then Jackie Wang is a hot knife of perspicuity. 

I urge anyone to pick this up, as it does a brilliant job of explaining how the predatory expropriation of blacks (especially from the financial sector) perpetuates the public’s support of the carceral system by mythologizing narratives of young black men as super predators and unworthy victims. It’s uniquely intersectional, as the author crosses into the effect of algorithms, personal histories, the Occupy movement (like all works of semiotext(e) do without fail 🫶), media accounts, Afropessimism, cybernetics, and much much more, and explain how the carceral state is implicated in all of it. 

p.s. shoutout to that cute guy in the billiards hall who complimented my semiotext(e) shirt and I pulled out my book and we bonded but for what because he didn’t ask for my number but maybe because I was there with a boy already ╮(︶︿︶)╭