Earthly Plenitudes

Bruno GullÌ teaches philosophy at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, and at Kingsborough Community College. He is the author of Labor of Fire: The Ontology of Labor between Economy and Culture (Temple).

• Acknowledgments IntroductionPART I: Critique of Sovereignty 1. Singularity or the Dignity of Individuation 2. Exception and Critique 3. Bataille’s Special Use of the Concept of SovereigntyPART II: Sovereignty and Labor 4. Ax and Fire: Knowledge Production and the Superexploitation of Contingent Academic Labor 5. Sovereign, Productive, and Effi cient: Th e Place of Disability in the Ableist SocietyConclusion: Labor without Sovereignty Notes References Index

“GullÌ is arguing for bold and radical theses which illuminate developments in the contemporary world, go beyond existing literature in the field in a dramatic way (by critiquing the very idea of sovereignty) and draw out the political implications of so-called postmodern theory. In my opinion, this is a seminal work.”-Anatole Anton, San Francisco State University