The Anomie of the Earth: Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas

Published by Duke University Press 2015

The Anomie of the Earth

Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas

Edited by: Federico Luisetti , John Pickles and Wilson Kaiser

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375456

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The Anomie of the Earth's contributors explore the convergences between Italian Marxist autonomic theory and Latin American decolonial thinking. They reject Carl Schmitt's formulation of a universalized world order based on the Western tenets of law and property and discuss the possibilities of locally organized and autonomous self-government.

Author / Editor information

Federico Luisetti is Professor of Italian Studies, Comparative Literature, and Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Una vita: pensiero selvaggio e filosofia dell'intensità (A Life: Savage Thought and Philosophy of Intensity).

John Pickles is Earl N. Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World.

Wilson Kaiser is Assistant Professor of English at Edward Waters College in Florida.

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"Luisetti, Pickles, and Kaiser have put together a provocative collection of essays determined to identify and theorize an emerging anomic response to the neoliberal and globalizing tendencies of contemporary politics. . . . Its self-reflection makes Anomie of the Earth an exemplar of the project of talking back to Western hegemony, while remaining mindful of the pitfalls of trying to do so from within."

-- John Randolph LeBlanc The Latin Americanist

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword. Anomie, Resurgences, and De-Noming Walter D. Mignolo Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction. Autonomy: Political Theory/Political Anthropology Federico Luisetti, John Pickles and Wilson Kaiser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Geographies of Autonomy
1. The Death of Vitruvian Man: Anomaly, Anomie, Autonomy Joost de Bloois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. Sovereignty, Indigeneity, Territory: Zapatista Autonomy and the New Practices of Decolonization Alvaro Reyes and Mara Kaufman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Part II. Indigeneity and Commons
3. Enclosing the Enclosers: Autonomous Experiences from the Grassroots–beyond Development, Globalization and Postmodernity Gustavo Esteva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
4. Life and Nature “Otherwise” Challenges from the Abya-Yalean Andes Catherine E. Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
5. Mind the Gap: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Antinomies of Empire Jodi A. Byrd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
6. The Enclosure of the Nomos: Appropriation and Conquest in the New World Zac Zimmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Part III. Forms of Life
7. Decontainment: The Collapse of the Katechon and the End of Hegemony Gareth Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
8. The Savage Ontology of Insurrection: Negativity, Life, and Anarchy Benjamin Noys Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
9. Unreasonability, Style, and Pretiosity Frans-Willem Korsten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
10. Re-enchanting the World: Technology, the Body, and the Construction of the Commons Silvia Federici Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Afterword. Resonances of the Common Sandro Mezzadra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 280

eBook

Published: May 29, 2015
ISBN: 9780822375456