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Geontologies : a requiem to late liberalism / Elizabeth A. Povinelli.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Povinelli, Elizabeth A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Philosophy.
- Ethnology.
- Life.
- Ontology.
- Liberalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822373810
- 0822373815
- OCLC:
- 1139387506
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