Savage Ecology
War and Geopolitics at the End of the World
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date of Publication: 16 August 2019
Number of Volumes: Trade Paperback
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Product details:
ISBN13: | 9781478004844 |
ISBN10: | 1478004843 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 368 pages |
Size: | 229x152 mm |
Weight: | 522 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 7 illustrations |
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Short description:
Jairus Victor Grove offers an ecological theorization of geopolitics in which he contends that contemporary global crises are better understood when considered within the larger history of geopolitical practice, showing how political violence is the principal force behind climate change, mass extinction, slavery, genocide, extractive capitalism, and other catastrophes.
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Jairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage Ecology he offers an ecological theory of geopolitics that argues that contemporary global crises are better understood when considered within the larger history of international politics. Infusing international relations with the theoretical interventions of fields ranging from new materialism to political theory, Grove shows how political violence is the principal force behind climate change, mass extinction, slavery, genocide, extractive capitalism, and other catastrophes. Grove analyzes a variety of subjects—from improvised explosive devices and drones to artificial intelligence and brain science—to outline how geopolitics is the violent pursuit of a way of living that comes at the expense of others. Pointing out that much of the damage being done to the earth and its inhabitants stems from colonialism, Grove suggests that the Anthropocene may be better described by the term Eurocene. The key to changing the planet's trajectory, Grove proposes, begins by acknowledging both the earth-shaping force of geopolitical violence and the demands apocalypses make for fashioning new ways of living.
“In Savage Ecology Jairus Victor Grove gives us a weirdly hopeful eco-pessimism. ‘We broke the planet,’ he writes, and ‘now it is our planet.’ Agree or not, the breadth of his archive (neuro-torture, algorithmic warfare, drone strikes, and cybernetic nation-building) and audacity of his thinking (biopolitics is now ‘almost quaint,’ he says, given the geopolitics of the Anthropocene) are simply exhilarating. Your thinking cannot survive this book unchanged. Fortunately, Grove says, ‘the end of the world is never the end of everything’ (though it may well be the end of us).”
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Aphorisms for a New Realism 29
Part I. The Great Homogenization
1. The Anthropocene as a Geopolitical Fact 35
2. War as a Form of Life 59
3. From Exhaustion to Annihilation: A Martial Ecology of the Eurocene 79
Part II. Operational Spaces
4. Bombs: An Insurgency of Things 113
5. Blood: Vital Logistics 139
6. Brains: We Are Not Who We Are 159
7. Three Images of Transformation as Homogenization 191
Part III. Must We Persist to Continue?
8. Apocalypse as a Theory of Change 229
9. Freaks or the Incipience of Other Forms of Life 249
Conclusion. Ratio feritas: From Critical Responsiveness to Making New Forms of Life 273
The End: Visions of Los Angeles, California, 2061 281
Notes 285
Bibliography 317
Index 341
Introduction 1
Aphorisms for a New Realism 29
Part I. The Great Homogenization
1. The Anthropocene as a Geopolitical Fact 35
2. War as a Form of Life 59
3. From Exhaustion to Annihilation: A Martial Ecology of the Eurocene 79
Part II. Operational Spaces
4. Bombs: An Insurgency of Things 113
5. Blood: Vital Logistics 139
6. Brains: We Are Not Who We Are 159
7. Three Images of Transformation as Homogenization 191
Part III. Must We Persist to Continue?
8. Apocalypse as a Theory of Change 229
9. Freaks or the Incipience of Other Forms of Life 249
Conclusion. Ratio feritas: From Critical Responsiveness to Making New Forms of Life 273
The End: Visions of Los Angeles, California, 2061 281
Notes 285
Bibliography 317
Index 341