Politics of Operations

Sandro Mezzadra is Associate Professor in the Department of Arts at the University of Bologna.Brett Neilson is Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University.Mezzadra and Neilson are coauthors of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor, also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction  11. The Space and Time of Capitalist Crisis and Transition  172. Operations of Capital  553. Capital, State, Empire  944. Extraction, Logistics, Finance  1335. Vistas of Struggle  1686. The State of Capitalist Globalization  209References  253Index  287

"The Politics of Operations is a challenging, highly ambitious work. . . . Ultimately, the reorientation that Mezzadra and Neilson are proposing is a subtle one, indebted to a rich archive of political ideas. But they rework and recombine those ideas into a book that is shrewdly reasoned, superbly written, and thick with insight into the contemporary moment." - Martin Danyluk (Society and Space) "Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson outline a novel perspective on the startling disjunctive synthesis of homogenization and heterogenization processes that characterize the global expansion of capitalist economy. Their second collaborative, book-length study offers a compelling account of the economic, political, and social relations to which these movements respond." - Nicolas Schneider (Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal)