Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism

by Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822362333
• ISBN13: 9780822362333
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"