The Rhetorics of Recognition in Geontopower

Philosophy & Rhetoric Nov 2015

The Rhetorics of Recognition in Geontopower

Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article examines the rhetorics of recognition in postclimate change political theory. As the future of human life—or a human way of life—is put under pressure from the heating of the planet, critical theory has increasingly leveled the ontological distinctions among biological, geological, and meteorological existents, and a posthuman critique is giving way to a postliving critique and biopower is giving way to geontopower. Building on my recent reflections on geontopower, I explore how critical theory is absorbing nonliving existents into late liberal forms of democracy, focusing more specifically on the logos-oriented model of Jacques Rancière and post-Deleuzean vitalist oriented models.

Journal: Philosophy & Rhetoric
Published: 2015-11-23
DOI: 10.5325/philrhet.48.4.0428
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multimodality multilingual writers argument

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Bennett, Jane. 2010. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

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Povinelli, Elizabeth A. 2016. Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

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Rancière, Jacques. 2010. Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics. London: Bloomsbury.

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Rancière, Jacques. 2011. “Ten Theses on Politics.” Theory and Event 5 (3): n.p.

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