Sayak Valencia

An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today's hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism. “Death has become the most profitable business in existence.” —from Gore 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.

Gore Capitalism

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.

Capitalismo Gore

Lola Olufemi

Silvia Federici

Zahra Ali

Djamila Ribeiro

Verónica Gago

Françoise Vergès

Rama Salla Dieng

In the years since #MeToo, misogyny, sexism and gender based violence have flooded the news and our social media timelines. Anti-privilege politics and intersectionality have entered the mainstream—systematically trolled on one end of the spectrum; embraced, to questionable ends, on the other. But what has this increased visibility entailed, other than the marketisation of the feminist struggle? Feminism for the World argues that we have been witnessing an erasure of feminism as a long-term tradition, with its many conflicting histories and geographies of struggle elided and forgotten. In this ground-breaking collection, eight leading international figures of contemporary feminism highlight feminist struggles and traditions from the Global South, presenting feminism as a project that is impossible without international solidarity from the West. In doing so they revive an authentic internationalism and propose paths for present and future generations.

Feminism for the World

Brigitte Vasallo

Virginia Mendoza

Miguel Vagalume

María Rodríguez Suárez

Israel Sánchez

Coral Herrera

Miguel Ayuso

Jara Cosculluela

Alicia Murillo

Este volumen colaborativo reúne artículos breves acerca de modos de relacionarse en lo sexoafectivo. Se trata de una lectura plural, que se presenta como una aproximación al concepto del amor, sus usos, maneras, grietas y posibilidades y que aborda temas como el poliamor, la anarquía relacional o el amor romántico. Este título, con h, paréntesis y minúscula, pretende ser solo una muestra del inabarcable y siempre cambiante abanico de formas que pueden adoptar el amor y los afectos.

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