Earthly Plenitudes

Bruno GullÌ teaches philosophy at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, and at Kingsborough Community College. He is the author of Labor of Fire: The Ontology of Labor between Economy and Culture (Temple).

“GullÌ is arguing for bold and radical theses which illuminate developments in the contemporary world, go beyond existing literature in the field in a dramatic way (by critiquing the very idea of sovereignty) and draw out the political implications of so-called postmodern theory. In my opinion, this is a seminal work.”-Anatole Anton, San Francisco State University

• Acknowledgments IntroductionPART I: Critique of Sovereignty 1. Singularity or the Dignity of Individuation 2. Exception and Critique 3. Bataille’s Special Use of the Concept of SovereigntyPART II: Sovereignty and Labor 4. Ax and Fire: Knowledge Production and the Superexploitation of Contingent Academic Labor 5. Sovereign, Productive, and Effi cient: Th e Place of Disability in the Ableist SocietyConclusion: Labor without Sovereignty Notes References Index