An Interview with Elizabeth Povinelli: Geontopower, Biopolitics and the Anthropocene
Theory, Culture & Society
Short Title:
Theory, Culture & SocietyAn Interview with Elizabeth Povinelli
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2017/05/01/
Pages:
169 - 185
Sources ID:
80126
Collection:
Anthropocene and the Environmental Future
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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This article is an interview with Elizabeth Povinelli, by Mathew Coleman and Kathryn Yusoff. It addresses Povinelli’s approaches to ‘geontologies’ and ‘geontopower’, and the discussion encompasses an exploration of her ideas on biopolitics, her retheorization of power in the current conditions of late liberalism, and the situation of the inhuman within philosophical and anthropological economies. Povinelli describes a mode of power that she calls geontopower, which operates through the governance of Life and Nonlife. The interview is accompanied by a brief contextualizing introduction.