Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s anthropology of the otherwise locates itself within forms of life that run counter to dominant modes of being under late settler liberalism. In these essays, she considers the emergence of new worlds and the extinguishment of old ones, seeking to develop a social imaginary that can sustain radical potentiality without turning a blind eye to our deep interdependence.
Camnitzer explains his trajectory since 1960s Uruguay in the introduction to this volume of texts, many published here for the first time. A singularly authoritative, yet anti-authoritative gathering of a life’s work in art, education and activism.