New Materialisms

Ontology, Agency, and Politics

Autor: Coole, Diana; Frost, Samantha; Bennett, Jane; Cheah, Pheng; Orlie, Melissa A.; Grosz, Elizabeth
Editor: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822347538
eISBN Pdf: 9780822392996
Lugar de publicación: Durham , Estados Unidos
Año de publicación digital: 2010
Mes: Septiembre
Páginas: 352
DDC: 146/.3
Idioma: Ingles

Descripción

New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances in scientific knowledge to address pressing ethical and political challenges. In the introduction, Diana Coole and Samantha Frost highlight common themes among the distinctive critical projects that comprise the new materialisms. The continuities they discern include a posthumanist conception of matter as lively or exhibiting agency, and a reengagement with both the material realities of everyday life and broader geopolitical and socioeconomic structures.

Coole and Frost argue that contemporary economic, environmental, geopolitical, and technological developments demand new accounts of nature, agency, and social and political relationships; modes of inquiry that privilege consciousness and subjectivity are not adequate to the task. New materialist philosophies are needed to do justice to the complexities of twenty-first-century biopolitics and political economy, because they raise fundamental questions about the place of embodied humans in a material world and the ways that we produce, reproduce, and consume our material environment.

Contributors
Sara Ahmed
Jane Bennett
Rosi Braidotti
Pheng Cheah
Rey Chow
William E. Connolly
Diana Coole
Jason Edwards
Samantha Frost
Elizabeth Grosz
Sonia Kruks
Melissa A. Orlie

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introducing the New Materialisms - Diana Coole & Samantha Frost
The Force of Materiality
- A Vitalist Stopover on the Way to a New Materialism - Jane Bennett
- Non-Dialectical Materialism - Pheng Cheah
- The Inertia of Matter and the Generativity of Flesh - Diana Coole
- Impersonal Matter - Melissa A. Orlie
Political Matters
- Feminism, Materialism, and Freedom - Elizabeth Grosz
- Fear and the Illusion of Autonomy - Samantha Frost
- Materialities of Experience - William E. Connolly
- The Politics of ‘‘Life Itself’’ and New Ways of Dying - Rosi Braidotti
Economies of Disruption
- The Elusive Material: What the Dog Doesn’t Understand - Rey Chow
- Orientations Matter - Sara Ahmed
- Simone de Beauvoir: Engaging Discrepant Materialisms - Sonia Kruks
- The Materialism of Historical Materialism - Jason Edwards
Bibliography
Contributors
Index