Williams Infrapolitical Passages

Global Turmoil, Narco-Accumulation, and the Post-Sovereign State
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8990-5
Verlag: Fordham University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm

This book makes a case for infrapolitics as an enactment of intellectual responsibility in the face of a tumultuous world of war and of technological value extraction on a planetary scale.

Infrapolitical Passages proposes to clear a way through some of the dominant political determinations and violent symptoms of contemporary globalization. In doing so, Gareth Williams makes a case for infrapolitics as an enactment of intellectual responsibility in the face of a tumultuous world of war and of technological value extraction on a planetary scale.

The book offers a theory of globalization as a gigantic, directionless crisis in humanity’s symbolic organization, as well as a theory of global economic warfare as the very positing of directionlessness and, at the same time, facticity. Williams’s infrapolitics stands at a distance from the biopolitical, which it understands as domination presenting itself as the production of specific forms of subjectivity in the face of the commodity. The subsequent obscuring of being signals the need to circumvent the instrumentalization of life as subordination to the metaphysics of subjectivity, representation, and politics.

Infrapolitical Passages works to confront that which is unavailable in subjectivity and representation, opening a way for facticity in the age of globalization in order to make room for the infrapolitical question for existence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Gareth

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Exordium: Extinction and Everyday Infrapolitics | 1

Introduction | 9

Passage I. Contemporary Turmoil: Posthegemonic Epochality, or Why Bother with the Infrapolitical? | 33
Prometheus Kicks the Bucket, 35 • Katechon, Post-katechon,
Decontainment, 54 • From Hegemony to Posthegemony, 74 •
Why Bother with the Infrapolitical?, 97

Passage II. Narco- Accumulation: Of Contemporary Force and Facticity | 107
Toward Narco- Accumulation, 109 • Toward Facticity, 117 • Facticity,
or the Question of the Right Name for War, 129 • Decontainment
and Stasis, 135 • Theater of Conflict I: “Here There Is No Choosing,” 144 •
Theater of Conflict II: 2666, or the Novel of Force, 148 •
Toward the Void, 162 • The Migrant’s Hand, or the Infrapolitical Turn to Existence, 167

Notes | 191

Works Cited | 231

Index | 243

Über Autor(innen)

Williams, Gareth
Gareth Williams is Professor of Spanish and Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of Michigan, where he is Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.

Gareth Williams is Professor of Spanish and Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of Michigan, where he is Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.