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English

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2010

Écrit par
Diana Coole and Samantha Frost (Editors)

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Duke University Press

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2010

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Date de parution

09 septembre 2010

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9780822392996

Langue

English

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.ContributorsSara AhmedJane BennettRosi BraidottiPheng CheahRey ChowWilliam E. ConnollyDiana CooleJason EdwardsSamantha FrostElizabeth GroszSonia KruksMelissa A. Orlie

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

09 septembre 2010

EAN13

9780822392996

Langue

English

Literary theory Philosophy

New Materialisms

New Materialisms Ontology,Agency,andPolitics

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on the last printed page of this book.

To our children, Lucien, Simon, and Madeleine, who are growing up in a new materialist world, and to Shirley Margaret Coole (1923–2009) and Michèle A. Moriarty (1952–2009), who did not see the end of the project but live on in memory.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introducing the New Materialisms DianaCoole&SamanthaFrost

the force of materiality

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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

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Feminism, Materialism, and Freedom ElizabethGrosz

Fear and the Illusion of Autonomy SamanthaFrost

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Materialities of Experience WilliamE.Connolly

The Politics of ‘‘Life Itself ’’ and New Ways of Dying RosiBraidotti

economies of disruption

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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

Acknowledgments

For their enthusiasm and suggestions in early stages of the project, many thanks to Wendy Brown, Bonnie Honig, and Linda Zerilli. At Duke University Press, we would like to thank Courtney Berger for her conﬁdence in the project as well as her persistence and insight in making suggestions about the shape of the volume and the arguments in the introduc-tion. This book is all the better for her timely interventions and enduring patience. Thanks to Cynthia Landeen for her indexing prowess and also to Timothy Elfenbein, John Ostrowski, and Michael Wako√ for shepherding the man-uscript through the production process. We are grateful to the outside reviewers whose percep-tive questions and suggestions helped bring shape to the project at crucial stages. In a project like this, the position of editor is especially privileged for the perspective it gives on the whole. We appreciate the willingness of contributors to work with us and to participate singly in the ongoing conversation we two have had over the past few years as we pulled the volume together. We are also grateful for their patience as we honed the volume into its current form. We hope that they appreciate the signiﬁcance of each and every conver-sation and essay in the quality and import of the volume as a whole.

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