Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures x
4. Contributors xiii
5. Acknowledgements xix
6. Introduction 1
7. Introduction
8. Blowouts 35
9. 1 Pumpjacks, playgrounds and cheap lives 39
10. 2 ‘Boom!’ 49
11. 3 Spillcam 58
12. Spillcam
13. Circulations 69
14. 4 Te Peeke o Aotearoa 73
15. 5 Both sides of the coin 89
16. 6 Milo 102
17. Milo
18. Borders 116
19. 7 ‘The trust will pursue debt through all means necessary’ 120
20. 8 Hunger or indebtedness? Enforcing migrant destitution, racializing debt 132
21. 9 Libre 142
22. Libre: debt, discipline and humanitarian pretension
23. Emergence 154
24. 10 ‘Afro-pessimism’ and emerging markets finance 160
25. 11 Dreams of extractive development 172
26. 12 Spectral cities and rare earth mining in the North China Plain 182
27. Spectral cities and rare earth mining in the North China Plain
28. Gestures 193
29. 13 Italy, Libya and the EU 197
30. 14 Racial capitalism and settler colonization in Australia 208
31. 15 Connected by a blue sweater 221
32. Connected by a blue sweater: ethical narratives of philanthrocapitalist development
33. Play 233
34. 16 Eternal conflict 237
35. 17 I am your dividend 248
36. I am your dividend
37. Control 259
38. 18 ‘The shape of the Stock Exchange is shapeless’ 263
39. 19 Data Centre Séance 278
40. Data Centre Séance: telepathic surveillance capitalism, psychic debt and colonialism
41. Imaginaries 290
42. 20 Mesoamérica Resiste 294
43. 21 Extractive scars and the lightness of finance 305
44. Extractive scars and the lightness of finance
45. 22 Imagined maps of racial capitalism 314
46. Imagined maps of racial capitalism
47. Index 322