The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
By: Elizabeth A. Povinelli
3.91
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normat…
Want to Read $ 21.87If you liked the academic plot in The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books) by Elizabeth A. Povinelli , here is a list of 5 books like this:
1. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
By: Michel Foucault , Colin Gordon , Leo Marshall , None , Kate Soper
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here. Michel Foucault has becom… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Michel Foucault's Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
- theory
- academic
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- anthropology
"It is surely the following kinds of question that would need to be posed: What types of knowledge do you want to disqualify in the very instant of your demand: 'Is it a science'? Which speaking, disc…"-Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
"I'm struck by the difficulty I had in formulating it. When I think back now, I ask myself what else it was that I was talking about in Madness and Civilization or The Birth of the Clinic, but power? …"-Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
2. The Waves
By: Virginia Woolf
4.15
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more
Want to Read $ 3.99Similar categories in Virginia Woolf's The Waves book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
"Death is woven in with the violets,"-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
3. The Queer Art of Failure
By: J. Jack Halberstam
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Queer Art of Failureis about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in J. Jack Halberstam's The Queer Art of Failure book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- academic
4. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
5. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
6. We Have Never Been Modern
By: Bruno Latour , Catherine Porter
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Bruno Latour's We Have Never Been Modern book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
7. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
By: Jasbir K. Puar
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, na… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jasbir K. Puar's Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
8. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Robin D.G. Kelley's Discourse on Colonialism book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
9. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Judith Butler's Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
10. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
By: None , Lee Edelman
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in None's No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
11. Regarding the Pain of Others
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
12. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Daniel Immerwahr's How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
- nonfiction
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
13. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.04
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
- nonfiction
"The present was too urgent to let the past intrude."-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"So den we gittee married by de license, but I doan love my wife no mo' wid de license than I love her befo' de license. She a good woman and I love her all de time. (Oluale Kossula)"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
"Whole nations are transported, exterminated, their name to be forgotten, except in the annual festival of their conquerors, when sycophants call the names of the vanquished countries to the remembran…"-Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
14. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
By: Sara Ahmed
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other people… read more
Want to Read $ 17.99Similar categories in Sara Ahmed's The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
- theory
- philosophy
- gender
- nonfiction
"Iris Marion Young discusses how some girls learn to “throw like girls"-Sara Ahmed, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
15. A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times
By: Anand Pandian
4.11
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In a time of intense uncertainty, social strife, and ecological upheaval, what does it take to envi… read more
Want to Read $ 14.72Similar categories in Anand Pandian's A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
- nonfiction
- academic
- anthropology
16. The Politics of Storytelling: Violence, Transgression and Intersubjectivity
By: Michael D. Jackson
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Hannah Arendt argued that the "political" is best understood as a power relation between private an… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Michael D. Jackson's The Politics of Storytelling: Violence, Transgression and Intersubjectivity book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
- nonfiction
- academic
- anthropology
17. Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense
By: Ann Laura Stoler
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective regis… read more
Want to Read $ 19.25Similar categories in Ann Laura Stoler's Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- anthropology
18. The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
By: Elizabeth A. Povinelli
3.91
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normat… read more
Want to Read $ 21.87Similar categories in Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books) book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
- relationships
- love
- theory
- gender
- academic
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- cultural studies
- bodies
- anthropology
19. Multisituated: Ethnography as Diasporic Praxis
By: Kaushik Sunder Rajan
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In Multisituated Kaushik Sunder Rajan evaluates the promises and potentials of multisited ethnograp… read more
Want to Read $ 26.55Similar categories in Kaushik Sunder Rajan's Multisituated: Ethnography as Diasporic Praxis book and Elizabeth A. Povinelli's The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality (Public Planet Books)
- anthropology
