The Accumulation of Waste
A political economy of systemic destruction
Published on 7. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
584 pages
978-90-04-72014-5 (ISBN)
Description
Phenomenal waste has surfaced as the social form and substance of value. In capital's totalizing process, which commodifies all that comes in its way, wasting classes consume the wasted classes. This book addresses the metamorphosis of value into waste and it focuses on wars as industries of perfect waste. Whereas wasted man is visibly the prevalent commodity on sale, this central element in the commodity relation is rarely mentioned. In line with this, the book examines how waste, as a surrogate value, eludes the crises of capital and maintains its resilience.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
810 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-72014-5 (9789004720145)
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Person
Ali Kadri teaches at Sun Yatsen university. His recent books include The Cordon Sanitaire: A Single Law Governing Development in East Asia and the Arab World, Imperialism with Reference to Syria, and The Unmaking of Arab Socialism.
Content
1 The Accumulation of Waste
?1 Introduction
?2 Situating Waste in Imperialism
?3 De-reproduction as Accumulation
?4 The Bomb as Pure Waste
?5 Absurd and Sane Alternatives
?6 Apportioning Waste
?7 Whither Subject
?8 Issues of Waste Measurement
?9 Class-Unmeasured
?10 Eurocentrism
?11 Conclusion
2 Imperialism and Waste
?1 Imperialism with Reference the Arab Region
?2 History Omitted
?3 War and Historical Surplus Value
?4 Brinksmanship without Organised Labour
?5 Militarism versus Military Spending
?6 The War Event
?7 On Imperialism and Essence
?8 Money or the Veneer of Value
?9 The Military Landscape and China
?10 Actual and Potential War
?11 The Western Marxist Position on War
?12 Closing Comment
3 Against Empiricism
?1 The Empiricism of Harvey
?2 Diluted Imperialism
?3 Concretising Some Forms of Capital
?4 Excessive Entropy
?5 A Periodised Imperialism
?6 The Persistence of Waste
?7 Lenin's Imperialism
?8 Misinterpreted Imperialism
?9 Imperialism and Nature
?10 Imperialism and Dead Labour
?11 Waste and Living Labour
?12 Waste in Social Time
?13 Waste and Technology
4 Value and Space
?1 Forms of Exploitation
?2 Substance and Value
?3 The Terms of Trade and Value
?4 From Value to Waste
?5 Imperialism Thingified and Actuated by Price Signals
?6 The Physical Limits of Value
?7 War as Social Production
?8 Waste and the Global Division of Labour
?9 Excess Population and Carrying Capacity
?10 The Not So Innocent Omissions
?11 The Negativity of Capital
?12 Revisiting the Elusive Measures of Value
?13 Class and Space
?14 Overproduction and Space
?15 A Portrait of Control
5 US-led Capital is the Only Imperialism
?1 Re-Theorising Imperialism
?2 Value Reconsidered
?3 Philosophy contra Value
?4 The Time in Value
?5 The Struggle for Time
?6 Abstract Time Mis-Defined
?7 Productivity and Productive Labour
?8 The Positivist/Pragmatic Method as Rationale for Imperialism
?9 Value and the National Boundary
?10 Class Institutions and Waste
?11 Dollar Hegemony and War
?12 The War Terrain
?13 China Is Not Imperialist
?14 Reproduction by Waste
6 Waste is at the Origin of Capital
?1 Development Redefined
?2 The Origins of Equity in Development
?3 Equality and Development in Islam
?4 Expansion by Economic as Opposed to Religious Zeal
?5 The East in the Economic Backwater
?6 The Consumption of Commodities by Commodities
?7 Involution and the AMP
?8 England Piloting Capitalism
?9 Production Relations Define Exchange
?10 A Restless Islamic World
?11 The Infanticide of Early Eastern/Islamic Development
?12 Thingified Institutions
?13 Islamic Wealth and the Transition
?14 Moneyed Capitalism contra Feudalism
?15 Islam's Cosy Relationship with Materialist Philosophy and Commerce
?16 Closing Comment
7 The Absurd is Real
?1 The Negative Dialectic
?2 Waste as Entropy
?3 Waste in Social Reproduction
?4 Self-Reinforcing Waste
?5 Waste as Essence-Appearance
?6 False Value
?7 Class Cannibalism
?8 The Analytics of Resistance
?9 Back to Basics
?10 Resist to Exist
Index
?1 Introduction
?2 Situating Waste in Imperialism
?3 De-reproduction as Accumulation
?4 The Bomb as Pure Waste
?5 Absurd and Sane Alternatives
?6 Apportioning Waste
?7 Whither Subject
?8 Issues of Waste Measurement
?9 Class-Unmeasured
?10 Eurocentrism
?11 Conclusion
2 Imperialism and Waste
?1 Imperialism with Reference the Arab Region
?2 History Omitted
?3 War and Historical Surplus Value
?4 Brinksmanship without Organised Labour
?5 Militarism versus Military Spending
?6 The War Event
?7 On Imperialism and Essence
?8 Money or the Veneer of Value
?9 The Military Landscape and China
?10 Actual and Potential War
?11 The Western Marxist Position on War
?12 Closing Comment
3 Against Empiricism
?1 The Empiricism of Harvey
?2 Diluted Imperialism
?3 Concretising Some Forms of Capital
?4 Excessive Entropy
?5 A Periodised Imperialism
?6 The Persistence of Waste
?7 Lenin's Imperialism
?8 Misinterpreted Imperialism
?9 Imperialism and Nature
?10 Imperialism and Dead Labour
?11 Waste and Living Labour
?12 Waste in Social Time
?13 Waste and Technology
4 Value and Space
?1 Forms of Exploitation
?2 Substance and Value
?3 The Terms of Trade and Value
?4 From Value to Waste
?5 Imperialism Thingified and Actuated by Price Signals
?6 The Physical Limits of Value
?7 War as Social Production
?8 Waste and the Global Division of Labour
?9 Excess Population and Carrying Capacity
?10 The Not So Innocent Omissions
?11 The Negativity of Capital
?12 Revisiting the Elusive Measures of Value
?13 Class and Space
?14 Overproduction and Space
?15 A Portrait of Control
5 US-led Capital is the Only Imperialism
?1 Re-Theorising Imperialism
?2 Value Reconsidered
?3 Philosophy contra Value
?4 The Time in Value
?5 The Struggle for Time
?6 Abstract Time Mis-Defined
?7 Productivity and Productive Labour
?8 The Positivist/Pragmatic Method as Rationale for Imperialism
?9 Value and the National Boundary
?10 Class Institutions and Waste
?11 Dollar Hegemony and War
?12 The War Terrain
?13 China Is Not Imperialist
?14 Reproduction by Waste
6 Waste is at the Origin of Capital
?1 Development Redefined
?2 The Origins of Equity in Development
?3 Equality and Development in Islam
?4 Expansion by Economic as Opposed to Religious Zeal
?5 The East in the Economic Backwater
?6 The Consumption of Commodities by Commodities
?7 Involution and the AMP
?8 England Piloting Capitalism
?9 Production Relations Define Exchange
?10 A Restless Islamic World
?11 The Infanticide of Early Eastern/Islamic Development
?12 Thingified Institutions
?13 Islamic Wealth and the Transition
?14 Moneyed Capitalism contra Feudalism
?15 Islam's Cosy Relationship with Materialist Philosophy and Commerce
?16 Closing Comment
7 The Absurd is Real
?1 The Negative Dialectic
?2 Waste as Entropy
?3 Waste in Social Reproduction
?4 Self-Reinforcing Waste
?5 Waste as Essence-Appearance
?6 False Value
?7 Class Cannibalism
?8 The Analytics of Resistance
?9 Back to Basics
?10 Resist to Exist
Index