The contributors to The Anomie of the Earth explore the convergences and resonances between Autonomist Marxism and decolonial thinking. In discussing and rejecting Carl Schmitt's formulation of the nomos—a conceptualization of world order based on the Western tenets of law and property—the authors question the assumption of universal political subjects and look towards politics of the commons divorced from European notions of sovereignty. They contrast European Autonomism with North and South American decolonial and indigenous conceptions of autonomy, discuss the legacies of each, and examine social movements in the Americas and Europe. Beyond orthodox Marxism, their transatlantic exchanges point to the emerging categories disclosed by the collapse of the colonial and capitalist frameworks of Western modernity. Contributors. Joost de Bloois, Jodi A. Byrd, Gustavo Esteva, Silvia Federici, Wilson Kaiser, Mara Kaufman, Frans-Willem Korsten, Federico Luisetti, Sandro Mezzadra, Walter D. Mignolo, Benjamin Noys, John Pickles, Alvaro Reyes, Catherine Walsh, Gareth Williams, Zac Zimmer "Luisetti, Pickles, and Kaiser have put together a provocative collection of essays determined to identify and theorize an emerging anomic response to the neoliberal and globalizing tendencies of contemporary politics. . . . Its self-reflection makes  Anomie of the Earth  an exemplar of the project of talking back to Western hegemony, while remaining mindful of the pitfalls of trying to do so from within." -- John Randolph LeBlanc ― The Latin Americanist " The Anomie of the Earth is an insightful and passionate call for a pluralist politics at a time when life and the Earth itself are at peril. By building bridges between two of the most daring traditions of epistemic and political experimentation, this volume gives new life to the ever elusive project of recasting the political along non-Eurocentric lines. What emerges from these pages is a tremendously enriched understanding of the relation between knowledge and action—a politics for the pluriverse." -- Arturo Escobar, author of ― Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World Federico Luisetti is Professor of Italian Studies, Comparative Literature, and Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Una vita: pensiero selvaggio e filosofia dell'intensità (A Life: Savage Thought and Philosophy of Intensity) . John Pickles is Earl N. Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping and the Geo-Coded World . Wilson Kaiser is Assistant Professor of English at Edward Waters College in Florida. The Anomie of the Earth Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas By Federico Luisetti, John Pickles, Wilson Kaiser Duke University Press Copyright © 2015 Duke University Press All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-0-8223-5893-0 Contents FOREWORD. Anomie, Resurgences, and De-Noming WALTER D. MIGNOLO, INTRODUCTION. Autonomy: Political Theory/Political Anthropology FEDERICO LUISETTI, JOHN PICKLES, AND WILSON KAISER, PART I. Geographies of Autonomy, 1 The Death of Vitruvian Man: Anomaly, Anomie, Autonomy JOOST DE BLOOIS, 2 Sovereignty, Indigeneity, Territory: Zapatista Autonomy and the New Practices of Decolonization ALVARO REYES AND MARA KAUFMAN, PART II. Indigeneity and Commons, 3 Enclosing the Enclosers: Autonomous Experiences from the Grassroots–beyond Development, Globalization and Postmodernity GUSTAVO ESTEVA, 4 Life and Nature "Otherwise": Challenges from the Abya-Yalean Andes CATHERINE E. WALSH, 5 Mind the Gap: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Antinomies of Empire JODI A. BYRD, 6 The Enclosure of the Nomos: Appropriation and Conquest in the New World ZAC ZIMMER, PART III. Forms of Life, 7 Decontainment: The Collapse of the Katechon and the End of Hegemony GARETH WILLIAMS, 8 The Savage Ontology of Insurrection: Negativity, Life, and Anarchy BENJAMIN NOYS, 9 Unreasonability, Style, and Pretiosity FRANS-WILLEM KORSTEN, 10 Re-enchanting the World: Technology, the Body, and the Construction of the Commons SILVIA FEDERICI, AFTERWORD. Resonances of the Common SANDRO MEZZADRA, Bibliography, Contributors, Index, CHAPTER 1 The Death of Vitruvian Man Anomaly, Anomie, Autonomy JOOST DE BLOOIS 1492 to 1977: The Passage beyond Modernity In his recent "Towards a Critique of Political Democracy," Mario Tronti argues that "there will be no genuine and effective critique of democracy without a profound anthropological investigation, a social anthropology but also an individual anthropology." For Tronti, "we witness the epochal encounter between homo economicus and homo democraticus. The subject of the spirits of capitalism is precisely the animal democraticum. The figure that has become dominant is the ma