The Politics of Operations

Excavating Contemporary Capitalism

Sandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478001751 (ISBN)

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In The Politics of Operations Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital reshapes its relation with politics through operations that enable the extraction and exploitation of mineral resources, labor, data, and cultures. They show how capital-which they theorize as a direct political actor-operates through the logistical organization of relations between people, property, and objects as well as through the penetration of financialization into all realms of economic life. Mezzadra and Neilson present a capacious analysis of a wide range of issues, from racial capitalism, the convergence of neoliberalism and nationalism, and Marx's concept of aggregate capital to the financial crisis of 2008 and how colonialism, empire, and globalization have shaped the modern state since World War II. In so doing, they illustrate the distinctive rationality and logics of contemporary capitalism while calling for a politics based on collective institutions that exist outside the state.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2019
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9781478001751 / 9781478001751
Zustand	Neuware