Theory of the Alien: Astropolitics, Spacepower, and the Outside develops a political theory of the Space Age organized around the conceptual figure of the alien, arguing that the constitution of outer space as an economic and warfighting domain transforms the categories through which we think politics and the human.Staging critical encounters with Helmuth Plessner, Carl Schmitt, Hans Blumenberg, and Bernard Stiegler, the book defines the astropolitical as the condition in ...

In Noir Materialism: Freedom and Obligation in Political Ecology, Michael Uhall reengineers the conceptual relationship between nature and politics by crafting the terms of a new philosophy of nature and exploring its consequences for political theory. These consequences include major theoretical reformulations of indispensable political ideas, including freedom, obligation, and the subject. These ideas need to be retooled because the ecological crisis devastating our planet is, a...

In a world in which political opportunity and liberation seem far away, the genre of science fiction grows in cultural importance and popularity. The contributors to this collection are political and social theorists from a range of disciplines who use science fiction as inspiration for new theories and examples of speculative politics. In dystopian governments, they find locations and forms of resistance. Representations of Political Resistance and Emancipation in Science Fiction explores...