The Miserables

By Sylvère Lotringer

Translated by Ames Hodges

What societies of control are achieving in the West through invasive technologies and the soft violence of financial capitalism—the production of work slaves and human zombies—is being enforced in the rest of the world by the most brutal, extreme, inhuman means. Narco-Capitalism, the extreme violence now raging in Mexico, is only the latest in an enterprise of systematic dehumanization that is affecting the entire planet.

Number 1 in a series of 22 publications produced on the occasion of the 2014 Whitney Biennial.