Vibrant Matter A Political Ecology of Things

Name: Vibrant Matter A Political Ecology of Things
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ISBN: 9780822346333

ISBN-10: 0822346338

ISBN-13: 9780822346333

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jane Bennett

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InVibrant Matterthe political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a "vital materiality" that runs through and across bodies, both human and nonhuman. Bennett explores how political analyses of public events might change were we to acknowledge that agency always emerges as the effect of ad hoc configurations of human and nonhuman forces. She suggests that recognizing that agency is distributed this way, and is not…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/4/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



The Force of Things



The Agency of Assemblages



Edible Matter



A Life of Metal



Neither Vitalism nor Mechanism



Stem Cells and the Culture of Life



Political Ecologies



Vitality and Self-interest


Notes


Bibliography


Index