Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Geontologies

A Requiem to Late Liberalism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Finding biopolitics unable to adequately reveal the mechanisms of power that govern contemporary life, Elizabeth A. Povinelli offers "geontopower" as a new theory of power that operates through the regulation of clear distinctions between life and nonlife.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780822362333
• ISBN-10: 0822362333
• Artikelnr.: 44521300

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  x
1. The Three Figures of Geontology  1
2. Can Rocks Die? Life and Death inside the Carbon Imaginary  30
3. The Fossils and the Bones  57
4. The Normativity of Creeks  92
5. The Fog of Meaning and the Voiceless Demos  118
6. Downloading the Dreaming  144
7. Late Liberal Geontopower  168
Notes  179
Bibliography  195
Index  209