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Creative Destruction: The End(s) of Capitalism: Ruination and Rebirth in Central Appalachia
Bradley M. Jones
The director of a local economic development authority leads me on a tour near the coalfields of central Appalachia on a recent winter weekend. ‘This place is unique in this country’, he says, ‘I doubt there is any other region that has been so completely left for dead’. Out the window the signs are starkRead more
Creative Destruction: Introduction: Creative Destruction, Destructive Creation
Ognjen Kojanic and Ana Flavia Badue
In Grundrisse, Karl Marx (1993: 750) conceptualizes violent destruction as a condition of capital’s self-preservation: as new organizational forms and technologies emerge, old ones need to be replaced. This process is an outcome of ‘bitter contradictions’, he writes. ‘These contradictions, of course, lead to explosions, crises, in which momentary suspension of all labour and annihilationRead more