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Author Mezzadra, Sandro, author

Title The politics of operations : excavating contemporary capitalism / Sandro Mezzadra & Brett Neilson
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 304 pages)
Series Online access with subscription: Duke University Press
Contents The space and time of capitalist crisis and transition -- Operations of capital -- Capital, state, empire -- Extraction, logistics, finance -- Vistas of struggle -- The state of capitalist globalization
Summary 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. -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Capitalism -- Political aspects
Capitalism -- Social aspects
Economic development.
Labor.
Globalization.
Postcolonialism -- Economic aspects
Work
economic development.
labor.
globalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
Capitalism -- Political aspects
Capitalism -- Social aspects
Economic development
Globalization
Labor
Capitalisme -- Aspect politique.
Capitalisme -- Aspect social.
Développement économique.
Mondialisation.
Postcolonialisme -- Aspect économique.
Form Electronic book
Author Neilson, Brett, author
LC no. 2018040971
ISBN 9781478003267
147800326X