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Between Gaia and Ground

Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism

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Engelsk
Between Gaia and Ground
Between Gaia and Ground
  • Forfatter: Elizabeth A. Povinelli
  • Format: Innbundet
  • Antall sider: 200
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9781478013648
  • Utgivelsesår: 2021
  • Bidragsyter: Povinelli, Elizabeth A.
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In Between Gaia and Ground Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes the climatic, environmental, viral, and social catastrophe present as an ancestral catastrophe through which that Indigenous and colonized peoples have been suffering for centuries. In this way, the violence and philosophies the West relies on now threaten the West itself. Engaging with the work of Glissant, Deleuze and Guattari, Césaire, and Arendt, Povinelli highlights four axioms of existence—the entanglement of existence, the unequal distribution of power, the collapse of the event as essential to political thought, and the legacies of racial and colonial histories. She traces these axioms'' inspiration in anticolonial struggles against the dispossession and extraction that have ruined the lived conditions for many on the planet. By examining the dynamic and unfolding forms of late liberal violence, Povinelli attends to a vital set of questions about changing environmental conditions, the legacies of vi