beloved

"We have all become so accustomed to the fact that the economy feels, well, rather brutal. Many of us think it just has to be that way.

"In this book, we call the kind of extractive capitalism that is dominant across and affecting so much of the globe the loveless economy. Visionary cultural critic and prolific Black feminist scholar bell hooks coined the term lovelessness to reflect the spiritual hunger and lack of true loving that is experienced and practiced across different dimensions of US society. 'I awakened from my trance state,' she wrote in All About Love, 'and was stunned to find the world I was living in, the world of the present, was no longer a world open to love. And I noticed that all around me I heard testimony that lovelessness had become the order of the day.' In her writings, bell hooks points to the ways in which the underlying principles of our current economy are incompatible with an ethic of love." - Joanna L. Cea

Author Interview: What Would a Beloved Economy Look Like?