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and Slavoj Žižek

Octave Mannoni worked in France

saw towns in rubble more than a year after the colossal earthquake in Sichuan

assembles his most powerful writings on the culture of late capitalism in this essential volume

The States of the Earth keyword-the-internet transcategorialityWhile industrial states competed to colonize Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century, conversion to Christianity was replaced by a civilizing mission. This new secular impetus strode hand in hand with racial capitalism in the age of empires: a terrestrial paradise was to be achieved through accumulation and the ravaging of nature. Far from a defence of religion, The States of the Earth argues that phenomena such as evangelism and political Islam are