Gore Capitalism av Sayak Valencia

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<b>An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today''s hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism.</b><p>“Death has become the most profitable business in existence.”<br>—from <i>Gore Capitalism</i></p><p>Written by the Tijuana activist intellectual Sayak Valencia, <i>Gore Capitalism</i> 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.</p><p>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