This book is a tour-de-force. As is called for by a book of this gravity, Prof. Allen covers a staggering range of topics and a library’s worth of secondary materials. This is all integrated in a compelling narrative exceptionally well.
—Jeremy Engels, author of The Ethics of Oneness: Emerson, Whitman, and the Bhagavad Gita— -
With this generous and exhilarating book, Ira Allen gives us cause for hope—not because the carbon, capitalist, colonial world we inhabit can be saved, but because accepting its demise opens us to the wondrous ways we can build a new one together.
—Jodi Dean, author of Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging
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This is not a book about knowledge production but one, I would hazard to say, about knowledge “digestion.” Its uniqueness and importance, I would add, is not in answering the traditional academic question “what do we know and how do we know it?” but, rather, “how can we live with what we know?”
—Davide Panagia, author of Intermedialities: Political Theory and Cinematic Experience and Sentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France— -