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Between Gaia and Ground
Elizabeth A. Povinelli
其他書名
Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism
出版
Duke University Press
, 2021-08-02
主題
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Philosophy / General
ISBN
147802187X
9781478021872
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YX45EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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 violence, and the limits of inherited Western social theory.
Between Gaia and Ground
also includes a glossary of the keywords and concepts that Povinelli has developed throughout her work.