![]() ![]() First, although the chapters were conceived and written prior to the pandemic, the different discourses about covid-19 and the starkly different impact of the virus on Black, brown, and Indigenous communities haunted my final edits, as they no doubt haunt the following pages. Some prefatory remarks seem important in light of these events and for guiding readers through this work. Pablo Neruda, “Standard Oil Co.,” 1940 CONTENTS Preface, ix Acknowledgments, xiii Introduction, 1 SECTION I 1 The Four Axioms of Existence, 15 2 Toxic Late Liberalism, 36 SECTION II 3 Atomic Ends: The Whole Earth and the Conquered Earth, 63 4 Toxic Ends: The Biosphere and the Colonial Sphere, 86 5 Conceptual Ends: Solidarity and Stubbornness, 112 Postscript, 131 Glossary, 134 Notes, 143 Bibliography, 157 Index, 173 This page intentionally left blank PREFACE The final draft of this book was completed during the beginning of the covid -19 pandemic and in the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests against the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless other Black Americans. However entangled the petroleum’s arteries may be, however the layers may change their silent site and move their sovereignty amid the earth’s bowels, when the fountain gushes its paraffin foliage, Standard Oil arrived beforehand with its checks and its guns, with its governments and its prisoners. Classification: lcc bd311.p68 2021 (print) | lcc bd311 (ebook) | ddc 111-dc23 lc record available at lc ebook record available at To my Karrabing family Especially to my beloved Kaingmerrhe My amazing first great-granddaughter Run, run, run, run, We run under the sun. ![]() | Includes bibliographical references and index. Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021. Title: Between Gaia and ground : four axioms of existence and the ancestral catastrophe of late liberalism / Elizabeth A. Harrison Typeset in Portrait Text and Antique Olive by Copperline Book Services Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Povinelli, Elizabeth A., author. ![]() Povinelli GROUND Duke University Press Durham and London 2021 © 2021 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ∞ Project Editor: Lisl Hampton Designed by Aimee C. Conceptual Ends: Solidarity and Stubbornness Postscript Glossary Notes Bibliography Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Citation previewīetween Gaia and Ground BETWEEN Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism AND GAIA Elizabeth A. Toxic Ends: The Biosphere and the Colonial Sphere 5. Atomic Ends: The Whole Earth and the Conquered Earth 4. Table of contents : Cover Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Section I 1. ![]()
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