Abstract from the Concrete

By David Harvey

Marxist geographer David Harvey opened his lecture with a fact: between 2011 and 2013 China consumed 50 percent more cement than the United States had in the entire twentieth century. In Abstract from the Concrete, he asks why. Spiraling outward--geographically and materially--Harvey travels from the building industry in China to the foreclosed housing market in the United States to the automobile industry in S o Paolo and back again. The why emerges as a direct result of "anti-value," of capital in crisis--intrinsic, he contends, to capital and capital cities today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3956792610
• ISBN13: 9783956792618
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.2"