Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes how the legacies of colonial violence and the ways the dispossession and extraction that destroyed Indigenous and colonized peoples' lives now poses an existential threat to the West.

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction  1
Section I
1. The Four Axioms of Existence  15
2. Toxic Late Liberalism  36
Section II
3. Atomic Ends: The Whole Earth and the Conquered Earth  63
4. Toxic Ends: The Biosphere and the Colonial Sphere  86
5. Conceptual Ends: Solidarity and Stubbornness  112
Postscript  131
Glossary  134
Notes  143
Bibliography  157
Index  173