A review by maxwellbernardi
Gore Capitalism by Sayak Valencia

4.0

An extensive, well reasoned analysis of capitalism’s relationship to violence and the separation of the “third” and “first” worlds. Provides a strong theoretical perspective without losing sight of the real life horrors and moral depths of epidemic organized crime. My only issue is with the author’s engagement with violence in fictionalized media; I feel she doesn’t sufficiently grapple with the subtleties of critiquing vs merely depicting or applauding crime and violence in art. Her writing on this aspect of violence in a globalized world is so brief and unaddressed I wish she had not sought to cover it all, because the rest of the work is so well thought out.