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Notes We thank those friends who helped us with the preparation and publication of this pamphlet, including Lisl Hampton, Melanie Jackson, Sandro Mezzadra, Jedediah Purdv, Judith Revel, Gigi Roggero, Raul Sanchez Cedillo, Nico Sguiglia, and Kathi Weeks. Opening: Take Up the Baton "Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you": See Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (New York: Vintage, 1947), 581. Chapter 1: Subjective Figures of the Crisis The Indebted We find four recent books particularly useful for analyses of the political significance of debt in contemporary' society: Francois Chesnais, Les dettes illegitimes (Paris: Raison d'agir, 2011); Richard Dienst, The Bonds of Debt (New York: Verso, 2011); David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years (New York: Melville House, 2011); and Maurizio Lazzarato, Lafabrique de I'homme endette (Paris: Editions Amsterdam, 2011). "Freedom, equality, property', and Bentham": See Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1, trans. Ben Fowkes (New York: Vintage, 1977), 280. The Mediatized "The problem is no longer": See Gilles Deleuze, "Mediators," in Negotiations, trans. Martin Joughin (New York: Columbia University' Press, 1995), 121-34,129.
See Etienne de La Boetie, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (New York: Columbia University Press, 1942); and Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise, in Complete Works, ed. Michael L. Morgan, trans. Samuel Shirley (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2002). " Living information is continually produced": See Matteo Pasquinelli, "Capitalismo mecchinico e plusvalore di rete," UniNomade 2.0,17 November 2011, http: //uninomade.org/capitalismo-macchinico/; unless otherwise noted, all translations are our own. See also Romano Alquati, "Composizione organica del capitale e forza-lavoro alia Olivetti," part 1, Quaderni rossi, no. 2 (1962); and part 2, Quaderni rossi, no. 3 (1963). Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (New York: International, 1963), 123-24. The Securitized "The prison begins well before its doors": See Michel Foucault, "Le prison partout," in Dits etecrits, vol. 2 (Paris: Gallimard, 1994), 193-94,194. For current statistics on US prison populations, see the Sentencing Project, www.sentencingproject.org. Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York: New Press, 2010). On the relation between growing prison populations and neoliberal economic strategies, see Loic Wacquant, Punishing the Poor (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009). "We have the wolf by the ear": See Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Holmes, 22 April 1820. The Represented "To represent means to make present an absence": See Carl Schmitt, Verfas sungslehre (Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 1928), 209.
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