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Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory
Author(s): Phil Neel (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: July 31, 2025
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 818 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004739467
- ISBN-13: 9789004739468
Book Description
Hellworld examines the megastructures of global capitalism, asking how revolutionary subjectivity might emerge within and against capital’s domesticating force. Central to this inquiry is the planetary factory: the global value chains connecting disparate industrial territories, the rise of China, the fragmentation of global trade, and, above all, the simultaneous deagrarianisation and deindustrialisation of labor. These structural shifts are linked to subjective forces, exploring how social divisions shape resistance. Through an analysis of uprisings in Hong Kong, Thailand, Sudan, and beyond, Hellworld considers whether this system―inescapable as it seems―can, perhaps, be destroyed.
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About the Author
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.
