Mezzadra / Neilson The Politics of Operations

Excavating Contemporary Capitalism
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0326-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital reshapes its relation with politics, showing how contemporary capitalism operates through the extraction of mineral resources, data, and cultures; the logistical organization of relations between people, property, and objects; and the penetration of financialization into all realms of economic life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mezzadra, Sandro

Neilson, Brett

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. The Space and Time of Capitalist Crisis and Transition 17
2. Operations of Capital 55
3. Capital, State, Empire 94
4. Extraction, Logistics, Finance 133
5. Vistas of Struggle 168
6. The State of Capitalist Globalization 209
References 253
Index 287

Über Autor(innen)

Sandro Mezzadra is Associate Professor in the Department of Arts at the University of Bologna.

Brett Neilson is Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University.

Mezzadra and Neilson are coauthors of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor, also published by Duke University Press.