ABSTRACT

Through ethnography of de-agrarianization and extraction in Myanmar, the article shows how threshold subjects – poor laborers uncertain whether they are relatively or absolutely unnecessary to the social system of profits and distribution – become vulnerable to the necroeconomy, a system of value extraction constituted by combining extraction processes that spatially, mechanically, and politically require death-making; willing laborers driven by debt, dispossession, and existential desperation; and biopolitical abandonment (by states or corporations) of subjects to the carnage of extraction. The article considers what politics may be inhabited by the threshold subject, given s/he is both simultaneously surplus and essential to social reproduction.

摘要

通过对缅甸去农业化和提取的民族志，文章展示了门槛主体——贫穷的劳动者不确定他们对于利润和分配的社会系统是否相对或绝对不必要——如何容易受到死灵经济的影响，死灵经济是一种价值提取系统，由结合空间上、机械上和政治上需要死亡的提取过程；受债务、剥夺和生存绝望驱使的自愿劳动者；以及（由国家或公司）对开采大屠杀的主体的生命政治放弃。鉴于他/她既是过剩的，又是社会再生产的必要条件，这篇文章考虑了门槛主体可能包含什么政治。