Geontologies : a requiem to late liberalism / Elizabeth A. Povinelli.

Main entry:

Povinelli, Elizabeth A., author.

Title & Author:

Geontologies : a requiem to late liberalism / Elizabeth A. Povinelli.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Description:

xii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-207) and index.
The three figures of geontology -- Can rocks die? : life and death inside the carbon imaginary -- The fossils and the bones -- The normativity of creeks -- The fog of meaning and the voiceless demos -- Downloading the dreaming -- Late liberal geontopower.

Summary:

"In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of late liberalism by offering a bold retheorization of power. Finding Foucauldian biopolitics unable to adequately reveal contemporary mechanisms of power and governance, Povinelli describes a mode of power she calls geontopower, which operates through the regulation of the distinction between Life and Nonlife and the figures of the Desert, the Animist, and the Virus. Geontologies examines this formation of power from the perspective of Indigenous Australian maneuvers against the settler state. And it probes how our contemporary critical languages—anthropogenic climate change, plasticity, new materialism, antinormativity—often unwittingly transform their struggles against geontopower into a deeper entwinement within it. A woman who became a river, a snakelike entity who spawns the fog, plesiosaurus fossils and vast networks of rock weirs: in asking how these different forms of existence refuse incorporation into the vocabularies of Western theory Povinelli provides a revelatory new way to understand a form of power long self-evident in certain regimes of settler late liberalism but now becoming visible much further beyond."--pub. desc.

ISBN:

9780822362111 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0822362112 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780822362333 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822362333 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780822373810 (e-book)

Subject:

Ethnology Philosophy.
Life.
Ontology.
Liberalism.
Ethnologie Philosophie.
Ontologie.
Libéralisme.
ontology (metaphysics)
liberalism.
Society.
Siedler
Liberalismus
Macht
Aborigines
Philosophie
Australien

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296501
Call No.: BIB 242869
Status: Available

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