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Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth A. Povinelli Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments x 1. The Three Figures of Geontology 1 2. Can Rocks Die? Life and Death inside the Carbon Imaginary 30 3. The Fossils and the Bones 57 4. The Normativity of Creeks 92 5. The Fog of Meaning and the Voiceless Demos 118 6. Downloading the Dreaming 144 7. Late Liberal Geontopower 168 Notes 179 Bibliography 195 Index 209
