Anomie of the Earth

Federico Luisetti is Professor of Italian Studies, Comparative Literature, and Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Una vita: pensiero selvaggio e filosofia dell'intensitÀ (A Life: Savage Thought and Philosophy of Intensity).John Pickles is Earl N. Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World.Wilson Kaiser is Assistant Professor of English at Edward Waters College in Florida.

• Foreword. Anomie, Resurgences, and De-Noming / Walter D. Mignolo viiIntroduction. Autonomy: Political Theory/Political Anthropology / Federico Luisetti, Wilson Kaiser, and John Pickles 1Part I. Geographies of Autonomy1. The Death of Vitruvian Man: Anomaly, Anomie, Autonomy / Joost De Bloois 252. Sovereignty, Indigeneity, Territory: Zapatista Autonomy and the New Practices of Decolonization / Alvaro Reyes and Mara Kaufman 44Part II. Indigeneity and Commons3. Enclosing the Enclosers: Autonomous Experiences from the Grassroots-beyond Development, Globalization and Postmodernity / Gustavo Esteva 714. Life and Nature "Otherwise": Challenges from the Abya-Yalean Andes / Catherine E. Walsh 935. Mind the Gap: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Antinomies of Empire / Jodi A. Byrd 1196. The Enclosure of the Nomos: Appropriation and Conquest in the New World / Zac Zimmer 137Part III. Forms of Life7. Decontainment: The Collapse of the Katechon and the End of Hegemony / Gareth Williams 1598. The Savage Ontology of Insurrection: Negativity, Life, and Anarchy / Benjamin Noys 1749. Unreasonability, Style, and Pretiosity / Frans-Willem Korsten 19210. Re-enchanting the World: Technology, the Body, and the Construction of the Commons / Silvia Federici 202Afterword. Resonances of the Common / Sandro Mezzadra 215Bibliography 227Contributors 247Index 251

"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)