Infrapolitical passages : global turmoil, narco-accumulation, and the post-sovereign state / Gareth Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Gareth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization.

International relations.

Geopolitics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.) : 24

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book makes a case for infrapolitics as an enactment of intellectual responsibility in the face of a tumultuous world of war and of technological value extraction on a planetary scale. Infrapolitical Passages proposes to clear a way through some of the dominant political determinations and violent symptoms of contemporary globalization. In doing so, Gareth Williams makes a case for infrapolitics as an enactment of intellectual responsibility in the face of a tumultuous world of war and of technological value extraction on a planetary scale. The book offers a theory of globalization as a gigantic, directionless crisis in humanity’s symbolic organization, as well as a theory of global economic warfare as the very positing of directionlessness and, at the same time, facticity. Williams’s infrapolitics stands at a distance from the biopolitical, which it understands as domination presenting itself as the production of specific forms of subjectivity in the face of the commodity. The subsequent obscuring of being signals the need to circumvent the instrumentalization of life as subordination to the metaphysics of subjectivity, representation, and politics. Infrapolitical Passages works to confront that which is unavailable in subjectivity and representation, opening a way for facticity in the age of globalization in order to make room for the infrapolitical question for existence.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Exordium Extinction And Everyday Infrapolitics

Introduction

Passage I: Contemporary Turmoil Posthegemonic Epochality, Or Why Bother With The Infrapolitical?

Passage II: Narco-Accumulation Of Contemporary Force And Facticity

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780823289912

OCLC:

1227951126