ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the merge of biocolonialism and the green capitalist complex as it expropriates resources across the Global South, where biopiratical accumulation has caused irreparable damage to ecosystems and Indigenous communities. Expounding on what I call accumulation by machinic subjection, I turn to an analysis of biopiracy, using the transgenic seed counterrevolution to relate a brutal understory of the biotech economy and the global context of environmental racism. I begin with a brief evaluation of Ciro Guerra’s 2015 film El abrazo de la serpiente to illustrate the historical effects of biocolonialism, which by the turn of the twentieth century became a central way for capital to exploit and control vital resources like rubber. Finally, my focus on the Indian Farmer Rebellions in 2020–2021 reveals the need for strategizing against biotech hegemony, neofascism, and uneven development.
