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The Virtual Debt Factory: Towards an Analysis of Debt and Abstraction in the American Credit Crisis
Published 2010-08-01“…By substituting data for flesh, the credit industry has created an antagonism between the material and informational forms of the self, resulting in the construction of a virtual debtors prison. The ensuing analysis will highlight both the exploitative nature of this bifurcation as well as its profound contradictions.…”
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Forgotten but not gone: A multi-state analysis of modern-day debt imprisonment.
Published 2023-01-01“…In almost every state, courts can jail those who fail to pay fines, fees, and other court debts-even those resulting from traffic or other non-criminal violations. While debtors' prisons for private debts have been widely illegal in the United States for more than 150 years, the effect of courts aggressively pursuing unpaid fines and fees is that many Americans are nevertheless jailed for unpaid debts. …”
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