'[An] astute portrait of the recession ... on one rich canvas.' --National

'[A] smart and easily understood book ... Dienst has a new and thrilling idea ... debt is exactly what bonds us and makes our kind of sociality possible.' --Stranger

'The most original thing about Diest's reading of debt, a reading that is very close to the truth, is that it locates it at the very center of human sociality.' --Slog

Richard Dienst is the author of Still Life in Real Time: Theory after Television and a co-editor of Reading the Shape of the World. He teaches in the Department of English at Rutgers University.

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