slow death

is the physical wearing out that is nearly a defining characteristic for certain populations.

the phrase slow death refers to the physical wearing out of a population and the deterioration of people in that population that is very nearly a defining condition of their experience and historical existence. The generalemphasis of the phrase is on the phenomenon of mass physical attenuationunder global/national regimes of capitalist structural subordination andgovernmentality. It takes as its point of departure David Harvey's polemicalobservation, in Spaces of Hope, that under capitalism sickness is defined asthe inability to work. This powerful observation about the rationalizationof health is an important part of the story, but it is not the whole storyeither.

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