A fierce critique of productivity and sovereignty in the world of
labor and everyday life, Bruno Gull's Earthly Plenitudes asks, can
labor exist without sovereignty and without capitalism? He
introduces the concept of dignity of individuation to prompt a
rethinking of categories of political ontology. Dignity of
individuation stresses the notion that the dignity of each and any
individual being lies in its being individuated as such; dignity is
the irreducible and most essential character of any being.
Singularity is a more universal quality. Gull first reviews
approaches to sovereignty by philosophers as varied as Gottfried
Leibniz and Georges Bataille, and then looks at concrete examples
where the alliance of sovereignty and capital cracks under the
potency of living labor. He examines contingent academic labor as
an example of the super-exploitation of labor, which has become a
global phenomenon, and as such, a clear threat to the sovereign
logic of capital. Gull also looks at disability to assert that a
new measure of humanity can only be found outside the schemes of
sovereignty, productivity, efficiency, and independence, through
care and caring for others, in solidarity and interdependence.
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