The Magma of War: An Ontology of the Global
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032784229 | 219 Pages | PDF (True) | 10 MB
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032784229 | 219 Pages | PDF (True) | 10 MB
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.