Gore Capitalism
$29.97
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2018
Summary
An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today’s hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism. “Death has become the most profitable business in existence.”
Written by the Tijuana activist intellectual Sayak Valencia, Gore Capitalism is a crucial essay that posits a decolonial, feminist philosophical approach to the outbreak of violence in Mexico and, more broadly, across the global regions of the Third World. Valencia argues that violence itself has become a pro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635900125 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1635900123 |
| Author: | Sayak Valencia, John Pluecker |
| Publisher: | Semiotext (E) |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 258g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Gore Capitalism |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Written by the Tijuana activist intellectual Sayak Valencia, Gore Capitalism is a crucial essay that posits a decolonial, feminist philosophical approach to the outbreak of violence in Mexico and, more broadly, across the global regions of the Third World… In a lucid and transgressive voice, Valencia unravels the workings of the politics of death in the context of contemporary networks of hyper-consumption, the ups and downs of capital markets, drug trafficking, narcopower, and the impunity of the neoliberal state.
—3:AM MagazineAbout The Author
Sayak Valencia
Sayak Valencia is a transfeminist philosopher, essayist, and performance artist. She holds a doctorate from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and is a Professor and Researcher at the Department of Cultural Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte.
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