The Entropy of Capitalism

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Copyright

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Contents

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List of Figures

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Introduction

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1. Understanding the Limits and Decay of the Capitalist Mode of Production

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Introduction and Core Hypothesis of the Argument

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Contribution of the Systems Perspective

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The Entropy Question within Marxism

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The Significance of Human Capacity

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A Trend towards Absolute Poverty

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Imperialism and the Entropy Question

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2. Capitalism as an Adaptive System

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Simplicty and Complexity

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The Critique of Modernism

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Issues of Structuralism and Evolution

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The Role of Agency

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Phase Transitions and Acquired Momentum in Capitalist Development

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The Adaptive Problem Faced by Imperialism

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Why Capitalism Can’t Adapt to become More Green

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3. The ‘Systemic Turn’ in Capitalist Political Economy

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Defining the ‘Systemic Turn’

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Capitalism Learns to Act with Systemic Processes

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Fundamental Contradictions Still Drive Capitalism

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Basic Principles of the Systemic Turn in Management

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Systemic Consciousness and the Issue of Development

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A Critique of Evolutionism

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A Largely Phoney ‘Empowerment’ of Workers

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Knowledge as a Basis for Selective Diffusion

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The North-South Issue within the New Management Models

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The Notion of ‘Embedding’ and Its Contradictions

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The Political Equivalent of Network Capitalism and Its Limitations

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Dissenting Networks and Why the Dominant Order Fears Them

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4. The Era of Feedback from Entropy

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Information and the Possibility of a Change of Course

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Managing the Social Contradictions of Capitalism through Negative Energy Flows

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The Core-Periphery Dimension

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Payback for Earlier ‘Export to the Future’

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The Information from Social Degradation

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Energy and Identity

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The Peak Oil Debate

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A New Regime of Nature

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The Approaching Food Crisis

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The Era of Complexity and Capitalism’s Failure

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The Role of Finance Capital in Profiting from, and Accentuating, Disorder

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The Political Dimension and the Plunge into Militarism

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The ‘Colonisation’ of Security

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5. Militarism and State Terrorism as a Response to Crisis

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Introduction: Chaos and Order

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Networks, and a ‘Diffused’ Form of Chaotic Repression

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Justifying Real Terrorism from Above by Manufactured ‘Terrorism’ from Below: Historical Antecedents and Contemporary Forms

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The Destructive Impulse Takes Over

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The Self-Propagating Chaotic Machine

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The Auto-cannibalism of Capitalist Democracy

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The Hollowed-Out Core and the ‘Great Reversal’

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6. Organisation of the Twenty-First Century International System

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The Scope and Limitations of a Non-Eurocentric Capitalist Mode of Production

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Authoritarian versus Systemic Power in International Relations

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Rejection of a Rules-Based System

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Dominating Information about the Future

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Reinventing the Federation of the Western States

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7. Contradictions in the Contemporary Phase of Imperialist Governance, and the Forces for Change within It

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Maintaining a System’s Core Features through Adaptation

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The Spectre of ‘Cold’ Imperialism, and the Ruling Order’s Attempt to Conjure It

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Spheres of Exergy, Spheres of Predictability

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The Futile Quest to Rebuild ‘Soft’ Power

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A New International Power Balance Premised on Scarcity?

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An Inter-dependent Exploitative System Held Together by the Core

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Towards a Regulation Premised on Addressing Intra-core Entropy?

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The Human Response to Scarcity and Restriction

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Struggling to Contain the Forces of Informality and Human Adaptation

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The Historic Battle over Commons Regimes

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Food as an Example for the Low-Input Economy

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The Left’s Role in the Struggle for a New Mode of Production

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Implications of Cybernetic Theory for Combating Capitalism’s Hegemonic Pull over the Network Debate

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Principles of the Emergent Mode of Production, and Found Objects, which May Be Incorporated

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The New Epoch of History

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References

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Index of Names

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Index of Subjects

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