"A comprehensive, imaginative and carefully compiled account of the interstices of power and its workings at fractal and transnational scales . . . compelling not only for exposing the brutality of our current global political economy but also for doing justice to the complexities of moving beyond it." - Helen Mackreath (LSE Review of Books) "This new work of Marxist-feminism from the Global South is quite simply the most convincing analysis of the current conjuncture I have read. . . . For me, the most important aspect of this book is its righteous ferocity-no injustice can hide from Tadiar’s circumspection." - Mark Driscoll (positions) "This stunningly brilliant book will break your brain and open your mind. Tadiar focuses on the life-making practices of migrant domestic and service workers, refugees, criminalized communities and dispossessed indigenous people to develop a theory of the surplus-making work of global capitalism. She adds a consideration of Global South artists and filmmakers to illuminate the ways of living that offer new possibilities." - Lisa Duggan (Commie Pinko Queer newsletter) "<i>Remaindered Life</i> is well worth a careful read. It is, in fact, a landmark work that provides a rich conceptual arsenal for understanding the capitalism of our times, where the periphery has become the center, where capital is intensifying the violent extraction and accumulation of value from surplus lives that belong to communities that, from its very beginnings in the colonial era, were forcibly subjugated by capitalism." - Walden Bello (Journal of Peasant Studies) "<i>Remaindered Life</i> is essential reading for those interested in understanding global capitalism through a human lens and those looking for a postcolonial feminist approach to sowing hope through possibility and envisioning alternative, radical futures in a post-capitalist world." - Camille Carter (Hypatia) "Casting the global present as both the aftermath and perdurance of decolonization, Neferti X. M. Tadiar’s <i>Remaindered Life</i> offers a profound and timely intervention on modes of life-making and survival, and the concepts of disposability, waste, and value. . . . Simultaneously, it is a book about survival and life-making, and a book about dispossession and life-taking – written in a deeply theoretical and yet also poetic form." - Laura Antona (Journal of Development Studies)
Acknowledgments xix
Part I: In a Time of War
1. The War to Be Human: Value 3
2. A Global Enterprise: Waste 23
3. Becoming-Human in a Time of War: Remainder 49
Interregnum 73
Part II: Life-Times
4. Of Labor and Fate Playing 87
5. Of Disposability 109
6. Of Survival 123
Part III: Globopolis
7. City Everywhere 141
Excursus 173
Part IV: Dead Exchanges
8. Powers of Defending Freedom 199
9. Powers of Expending Life 229
10. Live Borrowings, Living Connections 257
Thresholds 279
Part V: By the Waysides
11. Bypass and Spendor 301
12. And Then Some 329
Notes 335
Bibliography 387
Index 411