3 figures of geontology:

Desert
Animist
Virus

"The simplest way of sketching the difference between geontopower and biopower is that the former does not operate through the governance of life and the tactics of death but is rather a set of discourse, affects, and tactics used in late liberalism to maintain or shape the coming relationship of the distinction between Life and Nonlife."

vs meteorontological vs gexistences

including settler late liberalism -> colonialism

biopower: governance throuh life and death
geontopower: difference between lively and inert

making figural tactics visible

"late liberalism as a long- standing ontological orientation and distribution of power crumbles, losing its efficacy as a self- evident backdrop to reason." 
"sovereignty, discipline, and biopolitics stage, aestheticize, and publicize the dramas of life and death differently."
[scene/scenography!]

all three formations of power are always co-present, entanglements
sovereign power / disciplinary power / and bio-power ---> relations: implication, distinction, determination, or set membership?

appearance -- invention

"contemporary states [JR: not only states!] make live, let die, and kill"

Life (
v. Nonlife


Life (
IS NOT
Nonlife

Life ( Life { birth, growth, reproduction } v. Death { decay, composting, mourning } ) v. Nonlife

Life { ... } ( Life { birth, growth, reproduction } v. Death { erasure, tragedy } ) v. Nonlife { composting, mourning, partial reparation }

Lively ( Life { birth, growth, reproduction } v. Death { erasure, tragedy, end} ) v. Inert  ( Life + Death { composting, mourning, partial reparation, continuum } )

[go somewhere eles] undisciplined research urgency -- What new disciplinary combinations and alliances are necessary under the pressure of Anthropogenic climate change?

ancient sunshine

"changes to the
earth system are heterogeneous and diachronous, diffused and differential
geographies that only appear as instantaneous earth events when viewed
from the perspective of millions of years of stratigraphic compression."

Anthropocene splits between Human life and other. Then antagonism on what form of human life is responsible for damage, splitting even more.

"The global
nature of climate change, capital, toxicity, and discursivity immediately de-
mands we look elsewhere than where we are standing."

"We can only remain hereish."

existents

"Being has always been dominated by Life and the
desires of Life."


Desert: heightens the drama of constant peril of Life in relation to Nonlife. Promise of exploitation. Making green again. Calafou (also Virus)
Animist: insists that the difference between Life and Nonlife is not a problem, because all forms of existence have within them a vital animating, affecting force. See life where others see the lack of life. Agency, Affect ... vibrant matter. Indiginous.
Virus: imaginary of the Terrorist provide a glimpse of a persistent, errant potential radicalization of the Desert, the Animist. Confuses and levels the difference between Life and Nonlife
while carefully taking advantage of the minutest aspects of their differentiation.

[not negating biopower is there]

"to be the Virus is to be subject to intense abjection and attacks, and to live in the vicinity of the Virus is to dwell in an existential crisis."

TO READ/SEE:
W. E. B. Dubois on Brussels/Congo
Hannah Arendt’s 1963 reflections on the launching of Sputnik and the lost contact “between the world of the senses and the appearances and the physical worldview” would be impor tant here;
James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis published two years later in the wake of the revolutionary Apollo 8 picture of earthrise, broadcast live on Christmas Eve 1968
Juliana Spahr, Well Then There Now
MadMax 2018