Hellworld

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