The Accumulation of Waste

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72014-5
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, 568 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 810 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kadri, Ali

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft Entsorgungswirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Abfallbeseitigung, Abfallentsorgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.