La obra más representativa de los últimos años para pensar en las consecuencias del capitalismo global contemporáneo. Con una voz transgresora y lúcida, la investigadora y activista tijuanense, Sayak Valencia, desentraña la forma de operar de las políticas de la muerte en las redes del hiperconsumo, el engranaje de las fluctuaciones del capital, el narcotráfico, el narcopoder y la maquinaria del Estado. Como imágenes del filme poshumano más cruento, la autora pone al descubierto la maquinaria y las ramificaciones violentas de los «actores » del poder, en cuyos engranajes las estructuras capitalistas, el Estado y el narco entablan un cerco de dominio económico. En el capitalismo gore, los nuevos modos discursivos de las violencias organizadas intervienen en la producción del capital. Los cuerpos de las víctimas se ostentan, mientras la cultura del narco participa en la conformación de un mercado global que oferta los sueños y deseos a seguir.
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An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today's hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism.
Written by the Tijuana activist intellectual Sayak Valencia, Gore Capitalism is a crucial essay that posits a decolonial, feminist philosophical approach to the outbreak of violence in Mexico and, more broadly, across the global regions of the Third World. Valencia argues that violence itself has become a product within hyper-consumerist neoliberal capitalism, and that tortured and mutilated bodies have become commodities to be traded and utilized for profit in an age of impunity and governmental austerity.
In a lucid and transgressive voice, Valencia unravels the workings of the politics of death in the context of contemporary networks of hyper-consumption, the ups and downs of capital markets, drug trafficking, narcopower, and the impunity of the neoliberal state. She looks at the global rise of authoritarian governments, the erosion of civil society, the increasing violence against women, the deterioration of human rights, and the transformation of certain cities and regions into depopulated, ghostly settings for war. She offers a trenchant critique of masculinity and gender constructions in Mexico, linking their misogynist force to the booming trade in violence.
This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to analyze the new landscapes of war. It provides novel categories that allow us to deconstruct what is happening, while proposing vital epistemological tools developed in the convulsive Third World border space of Tijuana.
La obra más representativa de los últimos años para pensar en las consecuencias del capitalismo global contemporáneo. Con una voz transgresora y lúcida, la investigadora y activista tijuanense, Sayak Valencia, desentraña la forma de operar de las políticas de la muerte en las redes del hiperconsumo, el engranaje de las fluctuaciones del capital, el narcotráfico, el narcopoder y la maquinaria del Estado. Como imágenes del filme poshumano más cruento, la autora pone al descubierto la maquinaria y las ramificaciones violentas de los «actores » del poder, en cuyos engranajes las estructuras capitalistas, el Estado y el narco entablan un cerco de dominio económico. En el capitalismo gore, los nuevos modos discursivos de las violencias organizadas intervienen en la producción del capital. Los cuerpos de las víctimas se ostentan, mientras la cultura del narco participa en la conformación de un mercado global que oferta los sueños y deseos a seguir.
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An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today's hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism.
Written by the Tijuana activist intellectual Sayak Valencia, Gore Capitalism is a crucial essay that posits a decolonial, feminist philosophical approach to the outbreak of violence in Mexico and, more broadly, across the global regions of the Third World. Valencia argues that violence itself has become a product within hyper-consumerist neoliberal capitalism, and that tortured and mutilated bodies have become commodities to be traded and utilized for profit in an age of impunity and governmental austerity.
In a lucid and transgressive voice, Valencia unravels the workings of the politics of death in the context of contemporary networks of hyper-consumption, the ups and downs of capital markets, drug trafficking, narcopower, and the impunity of the neoliberal state. She looks at the global rise of authoritarian governments, the erosion of civil society, the increasing violence against women, the deterioration of human rights, and the transformation of certain cities and regions into depopulated, ghostly settings for war. She offers a trenchant critique of masculinity and gender constructions in Mexico, linking their misogynist force to the booming trade in violence.
This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to analyze the new landscapes of war. It provides novel categories that allow us to deconstruct what is happening, while proposing vital epistemological tools developed in the convulsive Third World border space of Tijuana.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sayak Valencia is a transfeminist philosopher, essayist, and performance artist, with a doctorate from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is a Professor and Researcher at the Department of Cultural Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte.
