Includes bibliographical references (pags 231-242) and index.
Contents:
Exordium: Extinction and Everyday Infrapolitics -- Introduction -- Passage I. Contemporary Turmoil: Posthegemonic Epochality, or Why Bother with the Infrapolitical? -- Prometheus Kicks the Bucket -- Katechon, Post-katechon, Decontainment -- From Hegemony to Posthegemony -- Why Bother with the Infrapolitical? -- Passage II. Narco-Accumulation: Of Contemporary Force and Facticity -- Toward Narco-Accumulation -- Toward Facticity -- Facticity, or the Question of the Right Name for War -- Decontainment and Stasis -- Theater of Conflict I: "Here There Is No Choosing" -- Theater of Conflict II: 2666, or the Novel of Force -- Toward the Void -- The Migrant's Hand, or the Infrapolitical Turn to Existence -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary:
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.
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