Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory /
Hellworld examines the megastructures of global capitalism, asking how revolutionary subjectivity might emerge within and against capital's domesticating force. Central to this inquiry is the planetary factory: the global value chains connecting disparate industrial territories, the rise of Chi...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
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Historical Materialism Book Series ;
354.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
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Call Number: HN65
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- Note on Languages
- Reading Guide
- Introduction: Descent
- 1 The Substance of Sin
- 2 The Smell of Money
- 3 Succession
- 4 Secession
- 5 The Horde
- 6 Ploutonion
- Part 1
- 1 Buildings Devouring People
- 1 The Great Enclosure
- 2 Village in the City
- 3 The Great Trade Collapse
- 4 Hinterland and Metropole
- 5 Mutilation
- 2 Crust of the Earth
- 1 Technology as Ideology
- 2 Mass
- 3 Malthus of the Machine
- 4 Technics
- 5 Alien Agency
- 3 Speak of Blood
- 1 The Last Graveyard
- 2 The Carnival
- 3 The Body of the Economy
- 4 Total Social Capital
- 5 Geographic Industrialisation
- 6 Supply Chain Struggles
- 7 Overcapacity
- 8 Beneath Eroding Exports
- 9 The New Flesh
- 4 Circle of Madness
- 1 Arcanum
- 2 Disintegration
- 3 Blood of the Beast
- 4 The Fable of the Parasite
- 5 Labour in Capital
- 6 The Teutonic Castle
- 7 Structure and Subject
- 8 Lamentation
- 5 The Hammer and Sickle Are Sleeping
- 1 The Society of Mutual Destruction
- 2 Yelling into a Microphone
- 3 Idyll
- 4 Exit
- 5 Mould on Glass
- 6 The Industrial Party
- 7 The Rebranding of the Sweatshop
- 8 Be Angry, Be Mad, and Live Your Life Well
- Part 2
- 6 Hell Money
- 1 When There's Blood in the Streets ...
- 2 ... Buy Property
- 3 Hostile Brothers
- 4 Competition as Crisis
- 5 Crowns of Gold and Green
- 6 Beachhead
- 7 Business as Usual
- 7 Under the Neon Sun
- 1 Rawls in Hong Kong
- 2 With Peace and Love
- 3 The City-State
- 4 Excess and Extant
- 5 Parties of Action
- 6 Be Water
- 7 Civil Society Strikes Back
- 8 Burn With Us
- 9 Necropolis
- 10 Anteparty
- 8 The Great God Development
- 1 Temple in the Grains
- 2 The Evil Here
- 3 Steam and Sail
- 4 The Global Grid of Iron
- 5 The American System
- 6 The Trust
- 7 Bringing the War Home
- 8 Labour in Capital
- 9 Internationalisation and Hegemonic Decay
- 10 Developmentalisms
- 11 Socialism with German Characteristics
- 12 Co-prosperity
- 13 Development Dances to the Drums of War
- 14 Desert Power
- 15 The Vanguard of Development
- 16 The Dictatorship of Capital
- 17 Blood on the Plains
- 9 Absolute Democracy with the King as Head of State
- 1 Field and Frontier
- 2 Chao Praya Utopia
- 3 Country Encircles City
- 4 The Aborted Miracle
- 5 Economic Warfare
- 6 Thaksinomics
- 7 The Rift
- 8 Red Tide
- 9 Party Building
- 10 Party Breaking
- 11 Neither Red Nor Yellow
- 12 New Generations
- 10 Dice in the Sand
- 1 Urban Fragments
- 2 The Mirage
- 3 Islands of Industry
- 4 The Pulse
- 11 The Diffraction of Africa
- 1 The Dar es Salaam School
- 2 The State Debate
- 3 Development and Dependency
- 4 Globalisation
- 5 Proletarianisation without Industrialisation
- 6 The Value Basis of Premature Deindustrialisation
- 7 Sub-imperialism and Industrial Involution
- 8 The City below and the City above
- 12 Hill of Ash
- 1 Polycrisis
- 2 Eternal Granary
- 3 Every Town a Bakersfield
- 4 A Place to Fall Apart
- 5 All the Gold in California
- 6 Are the Good Times Really Over?
- 7 The Wild Side of Life
- Bibliography
- Index.