... normativity resource extraction the Intervention plasticity new vitalism ...

... as symptomatic of geontopower in the context of extractive capitalism. normativity resource extraction the Intervention plasticity new vitalism ...

... structure and culture. With the incorporation of a new political system, Fidel Castro and his ministers began the process of redefining what it meant to be Cuban and modern. Television played a vital role in this transformative stage of tearing down ideological beliefs and building a different foundation...

... This chapter outlines one possible way of practicing a politics of crisis. Ranging widely (the essay touches on epistemology, the continuing importance of the university as a privileged site of critical engagement, the limitations of Deleuzian singularity, the siren song of vitalism...

... and large-scale vital systems, making the neoliberal immune system a key node in the national defense. This channeling of fear into optimism in state technologies of control—dread life—unleashed new practices of decolonization by turning medical knowledges, treatment protocols, patient collectives, social...

... This chapter reads Catherine Malabou’s “new scheme” of plasticity and her efforts to deconstruct the biology/ history divide as an important opportunity to revisit the human/ nonhuman distinction that has been repeatedly challenged yet continues to persist in critical theory. To do so, it makes...

... Chapter 1 stages an encounter between on the one hand contemporary theoretical fascination with materialization, corporealization, animation, and vitality and on the other hand what we know about the nature of matter in our nontheoretical, daily-engaged-with-the-world kinds of ways...

... identity for feminist bookwomen and the loss of the vital difficult conversations about race and feminism that the transnational network had required over the previous two decades. This chapter reads a legacy of grappling with accountability and alliance building, rather than the survival of a few feminist...

... and the humanitarian imperialism of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) as based on “affective facts” (Massumi) and a new body politic of “feeling political together” (Berlant). It tracks how literacy has become a major humanitarian target and a national campaign to redress (purported) Aboriginal...

... This chapter distinguishes between two registers of vulnerability through the notion of “agon.” The risk associated with precarity arises from the differential exposure to visibility, support systems, and vital resources (Butler). But risk can also be construed through the notion of plurality...

...-state and the imperial jus publicum Europeaum, focusing on what Carl Schmitt called the Katechon, or the restraining force of the international system of law. In criticizing the notion of hegemony, Williams calls for a new analysis of globalization and a rethinking of the post-Westphalian world order...

... This chapter deals with the spirit world, especially in terms of two main classes of spirits, nature spirits and human spirits, for their role in mediating people’s relationships with the land and one another. Porgeran cosmology is underpinned by the flow of a vital life force throughout...

... This chapter deals with the spirit world, especially in terms of two main classes of spirits, nature spirits and human spirits, for their role in mediating people’s relationships with the land and one another. Porgeran cosmology is underpinned by the flow of a vital life force throughout the land, plants...

... in a scientific renewal of “pan-Asianism” by getting disparate colleagues together as a single biomedical commons. Despite a new imaginary of a unified Asian past-present and potentially collective present-future in science, it remains unpredictable whether deep trans-Asian factionalism can be overcome...

... importance of the university as a privileged site of critical engagement, the limitations of Deleuzian singularity, the siren song of vitalism, and the challenges that science poses to the so-called new materialism), the chapter makes good the point that concepts, too, are objects—and not just objects...

... also generates new forms of bio-intimacy, in which people come to experience “the environment” as a constitutive part of the very fabric of bodies that can incorporate radioactive strontium and cesium right along with vital nutrients. This chapter concludes with a look at the post-3.11 phenomenon...