In Unpayable Debt, Denise Ferreira da Silva draw for us the Kant’s linear idea of time, and “as the criterion for truth and figuring of power, operates through separability, determinacy, and sequentiality” (p.88). She brings Dana, the character of Kindred by Octavia Butler placed in the past to save the life of her great-grandmother’s master-owner in order to preserve her existence in the present, the opposite of a linear temporality.

Through the images of the documentary Orí, by Raquel Gerber and Beatriz Nascimento, we can see the non-linearity of time no vai e vem das ondas do mar. Beatriz Nascimento will talk about how Quilombo emerges to affirm that mankind cannot be property. What reminds us of the readings where Silva frames Quijano’s thesis that the idea of race emerges as a colonial “mechanism of domination,” a “principle of social classification,” which distinguishes between two kinds of labor, paid (white/European) and unpaid (nonwhite/ non-European) (p.90); while for Wynter, Silva believes, in the coloniality of power, or race, she juxtapose the labor for human. The human-way is the white/European, and anything else represent the “others” nonhumans.