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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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Author:   Ali Kadri
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.978kg
ISBN:  

9789004720145

ISBN 10:   9004720146
Pages:   584
Publication Date:   07 November 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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