Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory / Phil A. Neel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neel, Phil A., author.

Series:

Historical Materialism Book Series ; 354.

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Historical Materialism Book Series ; 354

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Studies.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (819 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hellworld examines the megastructures of global capitalism, asking how revolutionary subjectivity might emerge within and against capital’s domesticating force. Central to this inquiry is the planetary factory: the global value chains connecting disparate industrial territories, the rise of China, the fragmentation of global trade, and, above all, the simultaneous deagrarianisation and deindustrialisation of labor. These structural shifts are linked to subjective forces, exploring how social divisions shape resistance. Through an analysis of uprisings in Hong Kong, Thailand, Sudan, and beyond, Hellworld considers whether this system—inescapable as it seems—can, perhaps, be destroyed.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Neel, Phil Hellworld: the Human Species and the Planetary Factory

ISBN:

9789004739475

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004739475 DOI