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    The Anomie of the Earth
    Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas

    Federico Luisetti (Edited by), John Pickles (Edited by), Wilson Kaiser (Edited by)

    9780822358930

    Paperback / softback, published 22 May 2015

    280 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.381 kg

    "Luisetti, Pickles, and Kaiser have put together a provocative collection of essays determined to identify and theorize an emerging anomic response to the neoliberal and globalizing tendencies of contemporary politics. . . . Its self-reflection makes Anomie of the Earth an exemplar of the project of talking back to Western hegemony, while remaining mindful of the pitfalls of trying to do so from within."
    - John Randolph LeBlanc (The Latin Americanist)

    The contributors to The Anomie of the Earth explore the convergences and resonances between Autonomist Marxism and decolonial thinking. In discussing and rejecting Carl Schmitt's formulation of the nomos-a conceptualization of world order based on the Western tenets of law and property-the authors question the assumption of universal political subjects and look towards politics of the commons divorced from European notions of sovereignty. They contrast European Autonomism with North and South American decolonial and indigenous conceptions of autonomy, discuss the legacies of each, and examine social movements in the Americas and Europe. Beyond orthodox Marxism, their transatlantic exchanges point to the emerging categories disclosed by the collapse of the colonial and capitalist frameworks of Western modernity.

    Contributors. Joost de Bloois, Jodi A. Byrd, Gustavo Esteva, Silvia Federici, Wilson Kaiser, Mara Kaufman, Frans-Willem Korsten, Federico Luisetti, Sandro Mezzadra, Walter D. Mignolo, Benjamin Noys, John Pickles, Alvaro Reyes, Catherine Walsh, Gareth Williams, Zac Zimmer

    Foreword. Anomie, Resurgences, and De-Noming / Walter D. Mignolo vii

    Introduction. Autonomy: Political Theory/Political Anthropology / Federico Luisetti, Wilson Kaiser, and John Pickles 1

    Part I. Geographies of Autonomy

    1. The Death of Vitruvian Man: Anomaly, Anomie, Autonomy / Joost De Bloois 25

    2. Sovereignty, Indigeneity, Territory: Zapatista Autonomy and the New Practices of Decolonization / Alvaro Reyes and Mara Kaufman 44

    Part II. Indigeneity and Commons

    3. Enclosing the Enclosers: Autonomous Experiences from the Grassroots-beyond Development, Globalization and Postmodernity / Gustavo Esteva 71

    4. Life and Nature "
    Otherwise"
    : Challenges from the Abya-Yalean Andes / Catherine E. Walsh 93

    5. Mind the Gap: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Antinomies of Empire / Jodi A. Byrd 119

    6. The Enclosure of the Nomos: Appropriation and Conquest in the New World / Zac Zimmer 137

    Part III. Forms of Life

    7. Decontainment: The Collapse of the Katechon and the End of Hegemony / Gareth Williams 159

    8. The Savage Ontology of Insurrection: Negativity, Life, and Anarchy / Benjamin Noys 174

    9. Unreasonability, Style, and Pretiosity / Frans-Willem Korsten 192

    10. Re-enchanting the World: Technology, the Body, and the Construction of the Commons / Silvia Federici 202

    Afterword. Resonances of the Common / Sandro Mezzadra 215

    Bibliography 227

    Contributors 247

    Index 251
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