Between Gaia and Ground
Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism
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Published on 2. August 2021
200 pages
978-1-4780-2187-2 (ISBN)
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Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes how the legacies of colonial violence and the ways the dispossession and extraction that destroyed Indigenous and colonized peoples' lives now poses an existential threat to the West.
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Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism
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Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism
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Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University and founding member of the Karrabing Film Collective. Her most recent book is The Inheritance, also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Section I
1. The Four Axioms of Existence 15
2. Toxic Late Liberalism 36
Section II
3. Atomic Ends: The Whole Earth and the Conquered Earth 63
4. Toxic Ends: The Biosphere and the Colonial Sphere 86
5. Conceptual Ends: Solidarity and Stubbornness 112
Postscript 131
Glossary 134
Notes 143
Bibliography 157
Index 173
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Section I
1. The Four Axioms of Existence 15
2. Toxic Late Liberalism 36
Section II
3. Atomic Ends: The Whole Earth and the Conquered Earth 63
4. Toxic Ends: The Biosphere and the Colonial Sphere 86
5. Conceptual Ends: Solidarity and Stubbornness 112
Postscript 131
Glossary 134
Notes 143
Bibliography 157
Index 173
