{"product_id":"savage-ecology-9781478004844","title":"Savage Ecology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJairus Victor Grove offers an ecological theorization of geopolitics in which he contends that contemporary global crises are better understood when considered within the larger history of geopolitical practice, showing how political violence is the principal force behind climate change, mass extinction, slavery, genocide, extractive capitalism, and other catastrophes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eSavage Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e Jairus Victor Grove gives us a weirdly hopeful eco-pessimism. ‘We broke the planet,’ he writes, and ‘now it is our planet.’ Agree or not, the breadth of his archive (neuro-torture, algorithmic warfare, drone strikes, and cybernetic nation-building) and audacity of his thinking (biopolitics is now ‘almost quaint,’ he says, given the geopolitics of the Anthropocene) are simply exhilarating. Your thinking cannot survive this book unchanged. Fortunately, Grove says, ‘the end of the world is never the end of everything’ (though it may well be the end of us).” -- Bonnie Honig, author of * Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair *\u003cbr\u003e“What Beck did for risk society, Hardt and Negri for empire, and Barad for technoscience, Jairus Victor Grove does brilliantly for global violence, delivering an ecology of warfare that is not only a corrosive critique of the three horsemen of our now daily apocalypse—geopolitics, biopolitics, and cybernetics—but a creative strategy for sustaining life now and thereafter. Grove is a philosopher with a hammer, writer with a stiletto, and artist with a spray can.” -- James Der Derian, Michael Hintze Chair of International Security Studies, the University of Sydney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSavage Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinarily rich text. . . . Wading through \u003ci\u003eSavage Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers a wondrous diversity of thought.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Chase Hobbs-Morgan * Theory \u0026amp; Event *\u003cbr\u003e\"Grove offers one of the most robust and erudite examples of a critical ethos of pessimism I have read to date. . . . Rather than distancing total destruction from our current moment in order to propose a redemptive, critical utopia, Grove is immersed in catastrophe as an immanent condition of critique.\" -- Davide Panagia * Public Books *\u003cbr\u003e“In an oddly provocative manner Jairus Victor Grove has provided an eloquent and impassioned tribute to war and its savage ecology. This book is a twofer, a thoughtful intervention in current policy debate and a scorching critique of mainstream IR theory, with its arrogant pretensions and its plenitude of crucial failures and catastrophic consequences. It will be tragic if activists and the discipline’s leading practitioners fail to read it.” -- John Buell * Informed Consent *\u003cbr\u003e“Grove takes a postmodern approach to the study of ecology in global politics, penning an engrossing if brooding and pessimistic book that is itself a unique expression of this theoretical tradition in IR theory.... [H]e offers an honest realism, one could say, whose rendering is brutal only because the current predicament facing us bears the brutality of the martial logic that brought us here in the first place. -- Shannon Brincat * Perspectives on Politics *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e Aphorisms for a New Realism  29\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Great Homogenization\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Anthropocene as a Geopolitical Fact  35\u003cbr\u003e 2. War as a Form of Life  59\u003cbr\u003e 3. From Exhaustion to Annihilation: A Martial Ecology of the Eurocene  79\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Operational Spaces\u003cbr\u003e 4. Bombs: An Insurgency of Things  113\u003cbr\u003e 5. Blood: Vital Logistics  139\u003cbr\u003e 6. Brains: We Are Not Who We Are  159\u003cbr\u003e 7. Three Images of Transformation as Homogenization  191\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Must We Persist to Continue?\u003cbr\u003e 8. Apocalypse as a Theory of Change  229\u003cbr\u003e 9. Freaks or the Incipience of Other Forms of Life  249\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. \u003ci\u003eRatio feritas\u003c\/i\u003e: From Critical Responsiveness to Making New Forms of Life  273\u003cbr\u003e The End: Visions of Los Angeles, California, 2061  281\u003cbr\u003e Notes  285\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  317\u003cbr\u003e Index  341","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408976257367,"sku":"9781478004844","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478004844.jpg?v=1730504935","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/savage-ecology-9781478004844","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}