Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
ISBN: 9780822346333 | 0822346338
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Duke Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 12/14/2009
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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... MORE
| Preface | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxi |
| The Force of Things | p. 1 |
| The Agency of Assemblages | p. 20 |
| Edible Matter | p. 39 |
| A Life of Metal | p. 52 |
| Neither Vitalism nor Mechanism | p. 62 |
| Stem Cells and the Culture of Life | p. 82 |
| Political Ecologies | p. 94 |
| Vitality and Self-interest | p. 110 |
| Notes | ... MOREp. 123 |
| Bibliography | p. 157 |
| Index | p. 171 |
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