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.

• 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 PloutonionPart 11 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 WellPart 26 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