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- Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
summary
Taking seriously the argument that things have politics, Political Matter seeks to develop a fully materialist theory of politics, one that opens new possibilities for imagining the relationship between scientific and political practices. The contributors assert that without such a theory the profusion of complex materials with and through which we live-plastic bags, smart cars, and long-life lightbulbs, for example-too often leaves us oscillating between fearful repudiation and glib celebration.
Exploring the frictions that come from linking the work of scholars in science and technology studies and political theory, these essays spark new ways of understanding the matter of politics.
Exploring the frictions that come from linking the work of scholars in science and technology studies and political theory, these essays spark new ways of understanding the matter of politics.
Contributors: Andrew Barry, U of Oxford; Jane Bennett, Johns Hopkins U; Stephen J. Collier, New School; William E. Connolly, Johns Hopkins U; Rosalyn Diprose, U of New South Wales; Lisa Disch, U of Michigan; Gay Hawkins, U of New South Wales; Andrew Lakoff, UC San Diego; Noortje Marres, U of London; Isabelle Stengers, U Libre de Bruxelles; Nigel Thrift, U of Warwick.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-5
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Part I. Rematerializing Political Theory: Things Forcing Thought
- 2. Thing-Power
- pp. 35-62
- Part II. Technological Politics: Affective Objects and Events
- 4. Materialist Politics: Metallurgy
- pp. 89-118
- 5. Plastic Materialities
- pp. 119-138
- Part III. Political Technologies: Public (Dis)Orderings
- Contributors
- pp. 297-300
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816674954
Related ISBN(s)
9780816670895
MARC Record
OCLC
698116891
Pages
328
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No