The Magma of War

An Ontology of the Global

Edgar Illas

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English

Routledge
21 June 2024

Philosophy; Cultural studies; Social theory; Political science & theory; Armed conflict

War, from the conflicts in the Middle East and Russia/Ukraine to Mexican narco-violence, from neocolonial land grabs in the Global South to racial, border, health, and climate crises all over the planet, defines the most extreme and contradictory expression of the global world. In this fascinating exploration on the history of the thinking of conflict, Edgar Illas departs from military and sociological analyses to propose a theoretical exploration of war as the ontological force that produces political orders.

Magma is used as a geological metaphor to theorize the mixtures of politics and war that organize, and disorganize, global society. Divided into two parts, Illas’ study begins by surveying some of the most important thinkers of war, moving from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. Each thinker provides a different inflection in the historical evolution of the being of war. The second part turns to a theorization of the twenty-first century to claim that conflictive relations between capital, state power, political movements, and social life in globalization culminate and at the same time reiterate the paradoxes of war as an ontological event.

The Magma of War is an energizing contribution to the task of rethinking politics in relation to war and an invaluable resource to all those conscious of the unstable forms of contemporary social and political life.

By: Edgar Illas
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032784229
ISBN 10: 1032784229
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 21 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Part I: From cosmic strife to global war (and back again) 1 Heraclitean cosmic strife 2 The Greek polis and the break with war 3 Just war in the res publica christiana 4 Machiavelli: War as primitive state accumulation 5 War and the modern state: Hobbes, Locke, Kant, Hegel 6 The continuum between war and state: Clausewitz, Schmitt, Foucault 7 The abyssal gap: Deconstructing war 8 The immanence of post- statal violence Part II: The magmatic nomos of global war 9 A geological nomos 10 From post- modern liquid to global magmatic 11 The chthonic dimension of Medea 12 Subterranean flow of violence 13 The global biopolitics of violence 14 A capitalist logic of war 15 Magmatic immanence Postscript: How to survive in global war?

Edgar Illas is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research interests lie in political theory, Marxism, biopolitics, and war studies, and his field of specialization is contemporary Catalan culture. He has published The Survival Regime: Global War and the Political (Routledge, 2020) and Thinking Barcelona: Ideologies of a Global City (2012) and various articles on theoretical Marxism, politics, and architecture.