The Force of Things: Steps toward an Ecology of Matter  

Oleh:

Bennett, Jane

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Political Theory vol. 32 no. 3 (Jun. 2004), page 347-372.
Topik: materialism; materiality; ecology; Latour; Deleuze; Adorno; Spinoza; nonhuman; immanence
Fulltext: 347PT323.pdf (143.94KB)

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This essay seeks to give philosophical expression to the vitality, willfullness, and recalcitrance possessed by nonhuman entities and forces. It also considers the ethico-political import of an enhanced awareness of “thing-power.” Drawing from Lucretius, Spinoza,Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour, and others, it describes a materialism of lively matter, to be placed in conversation with the historical materialism of Marx and the body materialism of feminist and cultural studies. Thing-power materialism is a speculative onto-story, an admittedly presumptuous attempt to depict the nonhumanity that flows around and through humans. The essay concludes with a preliminary discussion of the ecological implications of thing-power.

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