By Achille Mbembe
This thought-provoking and groundbreaking selection of essays—his first ebook to be released in English—develops and extends debates first ignited through his famous 1992 article "Provisional Notes at the Postcolony," within which he built his idea of the "banality of energy" in modern Africa. Mbembe reinterprets the meanings of demise, utopia, and the divine libido as a part of the hot theoretical views he bargains at the structure of energy. He works with the advanced registers of physically subjectivity — violence, ask yourself, and laughter — to profoundly contest different types of oppression and resistance, autonomy and subjection, and nation and civil society that marked the social conception of the overdue 20th century.
This provocative ebook would definitely allure realization with its sign contribution to the wealthy interdisciplinary area of scholarship on colonial and postcolonial discourse, historical past, anthropology, philosophy, political technological know-how, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism.
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