The Savage Share

Capitalism, alterities, fiction et economic realities

Bibliographic Data

ID5082875
AuthorsIsmaël Moya (0000-0002-7303-5306, École Polytechnique, corresponding author)
TranslatorsMatthew Carrey
Year2023
Volume78
Publication date2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTerrain (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0760-5668 • E-ISSN: 1777-5450
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/terrain.25576
OpenAlexW4388481048
LanguageEN
References cited26

In a world brought to ruin by humans and overrun by global capitalism, no space has been left untouched by the transformations of modernity. Yet the intensification of capitalism continues to run into other obstacles than those offered by nature and by power (be this the state or militant resistance). These limits imposed on dynamics of accumulation are what we call the "savage share" of capitalism, where wealth is not domesticated to increase its yield, but captured and redirected towards alternative forms of social life. The "savage" is bound in a relationship of alterity with capitalism, which it treats as a resource and sometimes even as prey

Capitalism · Economics · Militant · Modernity · Neoclassical economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law