The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)

In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulates in liberal settler c…

If you like book The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books) here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (11)

Cruel Optimism

A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism…
Buy this book on Amazon
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questio…
Buy this book on Amazon
Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense

Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced media…
Buy this book on Amazon
We Have Never Been Modern

With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Lato…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Moths and Other Stories

Buy this book on Amazon
Regarding the Pain of Others

Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of …
Buy this book on Amazon
The Master and Margarita

The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.

An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as on…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way

A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other people’s, to build a more just world

Do you refuse to laugh at offensive jokes? Have you ever been accused …
Buy this book on Amazon
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

Das erste neue Leben, das sich nach der nuklearen Katastrope in Hiroshima wieder regte, war ein Pilz. Ein Matsutake, der auf den verseuchten Trümmern der Stadt wuchs – einer der wertvollsten Speisepil…
Buy this book on Amazon
Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #2)

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chanc…
Buy this book on Amazon
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977

Buy this book on Amazon