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Vibrant Matter
A Political Ecology of Things
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ISBN-13:
9780822346333
Veröffentl:
2010
Erscheinungsdatum:
04.01.2010
Seiten:
200
Autor:
Jane Bennett
Gewicht:
278 g
Format:
226x151x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Jane Bennett is Professor of Political Theory and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics and Thoreau’s Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild, and an editor of The Politics of Moralizing and In the Nature of Things: Language, Politics, and the Environment.
Preface viiAcknowledgments xxi1. The Force of Things 12. The Agency of Assemblages 203. Edible Matter 394. A Life of Metal 525. Neither Vitalism nor Mechanism 626. Stem Cells and the Culture of Life 827. Political Ecologies 948. Vitality and Self-interest 110Notes 123Bibliography 157Index 171
Theorizes the political agency of things and natural phenomena--such as trash, food, weather, electricity--to examine how non-human elements exert force upon human politics and social relations.