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廉價的真相:看穿資本主義生態邏輯的七樣事物 (WHAT)

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你知道嗎?你吃的雞塊,是資本主義運作方式的展現,自然、金錢、工作、照護、食物、能源、生命,這七樣廉價事物,如何體現出人、自然在資本主義生態中的複雜關係?二十一世紀對全球生物網而言,是一個「回不去了的驟變時代」,海平面上升、溫室效應、物種滅絕,對大多數的人來說,比起想像資本主義滅亡,想像地球毀滅要容易多了。作者在本書中試圖回答全球關切卻難解的問題:為什麼人類會走到今天這一步?要談論人與自然的複雜關係,只談人口、糧食、資源、氣候是遠遠不夠的,作者認為,問題的根本在於資本主義。資本主義維持運作的邏輯是「廉價」,廉價是一種策略,一種作法。「廉價」並非低成本,廉價是「以最少報酬動員所有勞力的暴力行為。」資本主義使用「廉價化」策略,將七樣人類生存最珍貴的事物,轉化為生產要素,將生命繁衍關係,轉變為生產和消費的循環,將自然生命的繁衍,淪落為生命製造,跟製造物品一樣,在成本上錙銖必較。在某些特定方面,資本主義非常具有生產力,但這強大的生產力竟然是來自於用最便宜的價格讓自然做工。現代生活中資本主義的象徵,不是汽車也非智慧型手機,而是你手上的麥克雞塊……我們以「雞」這種家禽為例,

440 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 23, 2018

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Raj Patel

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Raj Patel has worked for the World Bank and WTO and been tear-gassed on four continents protesting against them. Writer, activist, and academic, he is currently a Research Professor at the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

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