Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory

Phil A. Neel is a communist geographer from the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of Hinterland: America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict (Reaktion, 2018) and is a regular contributor to the Field Notes section of The Brooklyn Rail.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNote on LanguagesReading GuideIntroduction: Descent1 The Substance of Sin2 The Smell of Money3 Succession4 Secession5 The Horde6 PloutonionPart 1 1 Buildings Devouring People1 The Great Enclosure2 Village in the City3 The Great Trade Collapse4 Hinterland and Metropole5 Mutilation2 Crust of the Earth1 Technology as Ideology2 Mass3 Malthus of the Machine4 Technics5 Alien Agency3 Speak of Blood1 The Last Graveyard2 The Carnival3 The Body of the Economy4 Total Social Capital5 Geographic Industrialisation6 Supply Chain Struggles7 Overcapacity8 Beneath Eroding Exports9 The New Flesh4 Circle of Madness1 Arcanum2 Disintegration3 Blood of the Beast4 The Fable of the Parasite5 Labour in Capital6 The Teutonic Castle7 Structure and Subject8 Lamentation5 The Hammer and Sickle Are Sleeping1 The Society of Mutual Destruction2 Yelling into a Microphone3 Idyll4 Exit5 Mould on Glass6 The Industrial Party7 The Rebranding of the Sweatshop8 Be Angry, Be Mad, and Live Your Life WellPart 2 6 Hell Money1 When There’s Blood in the Streets …2 … Buy Property3 Hostile Brothers4 Competition as Crisis5 Crowns of Gold and Green6 Beachhead7 Business as Usual7 Under the Neon Sun1 Rawls in Hong Kong2 With Peace and Love3 The City-State4 Excess and Extant5 Parties of Action6 Be Water7 Civil Society Strikes Back8 Burn With Us9 Necropolis10 Anteparty8 The Great God Development1 Temple in the Grains2 The Evil Here3 Steam and Sail4 The Global Grid of Iron5 The American System6 The Trust7 Bringing the War Home8 Labour in Capital9 Internationalisation and Hegemonic Decay10 Developmentalisms11 Socialism with German Characteristics12 Co-prosperity13 Development Dances to the Drums of War14 Desert Power15 The Vanguard of Development16 The Dictatorship of Capital17 Blood on the Plains9 Absolute Democracy with the King as Head of State1 Field and Frontier2 Chao Praya Utopia3 Country Encircles City4 The Aborted Miracle5 Economic Warfare6 Thaksinomics7 The Rift8 Red Tide9 Party Building10 Party Breaking11 Neither Red Nor Yellow12 New Generations10 Dice in the Sand1 Urban Fragments2 The Mirage3 Islands of Industry4 The Pulse11 The Diffraction of Africa1 The Dar es Salaam School2 The State Debate3 Development and Dependency4 Globalisation5 Proletarianisation without Industrialisation6 The Value Basis of Premature Deindustrialisation7 Sub-imperialism and Industrial Involution8 The City below and the City above12 Hill of Ash1 Polycrisis2 Eternal Granary3 Every Town a Bakersfield4 A Place to Fall Apart5 All the Gold in California6 Are the Good Times Really Over?7 The Wild Side of LifeBibliographyIndex