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Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism QUOTES

Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism QUOTES

1 " In other words, the Anthropocene and its companion concept of climate change should not be seen merely as meteorological and geological events but as a set of political and conceptual disturbances that emerged in the 1960s—the radical environmental movement, Indigenous opposition to mining, the concept of Gaia and the whole earth—and these disturbances are now accelerating the problem of how late liberalism will govern difference and markets globally. "

― Elizabeth A. Povinelli , Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism

2 " Desert does not refer in any literal way to the ecosystem that, for lack of water, is hostile to life. The Desert is the affect that motivates the search for other instances of life in the universe and technologies for seeding planets with life; "

― Elizabeth A. Povinelli , Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism

3 " contemporary states make live, let die, and kill "

― Elizabeth A. Povinelli , Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism

4 " The Animist is, in other words, all those who see an equivalence between all forms of life or who can see life where others would see the lack of life. The theoretical "

― Elizabeth A. Povinelli , Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism