The true barbarians are the oil company’s primitive accumulators, not desert raiders

Evidence

The most threatening desert marauders, the barbarians out there, are by implication imperialism’s primitive accumulators. The full force of the novel’s titular bewilderment is felt when the Bedouin characters are thrust into the high-speed, unintelligible chaos of the company town—the urban wilderness that is petro-modernity’s cultural creation. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 253

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on ch4 (vernacular vs official landscapes) and ch14 (extraction enclaves severing territory from nation). — connects to: The barbarian is defined by domination and plunder, not exchange — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 5677

Broader Connections

• The barbarian is defined by domination and plunder, not exchange #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 5677