New Materialisms

Author : Diana Coole,Samantha Frost
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822392996

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New Materialisms by Diana Coole,Samantha Frost Pdf

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

Author : Rick Dolphijn,Iris van der Tuin
Publisher : Open Humanitites Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Materialism
ISBN : 1607852810

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Author : Nick J. Fox,Pam Alldred
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781473987388

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Sociology and the New Materialism by Nick J. Fox,Pam Alldred Pdf

Guiding the reader through both theory and application, Fox and Alldred explore the varied uses of "new materialism", a key emerging trend in 21st century thought, in the practice of doing sociology today.

Author : Susan M. Alt,Timothy R. Pauketat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351008464

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New Materialisms Ancient Urbanisms by Susan M. Alt,Timothy R. Pauketat Pdf

The future of humanity is urban, and knowledge of urbanism’s deep past is critical for us all to navigate that future. The time has come for archaeologists to rethink this global phenomenon by asking what urbanism is and, more to the point, was. Can we truly understand ancient urbanism by only asking after the human element, or are the properties and qualities of landscapes, materials, and atmospheres equally causal? The nine authors of New Materialisms Ancient Urbanisms seek less anthropocentric answers to questions about the historical relationships between urbanism and humanity in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. They analyze the movements and flows of materials, things, phenomena, and beings—human and otherwise—as these were assembled to produce the kinds of complex, dense, and stratified relationships that we today label urban. In so doing, the book emerges as a work of both theory and historical anthropology. It breaks new ground in the archaeology of urbanism, building on the latest ‘New Materialist’, ‘relational-ontological’, and ‘realist’ trends in social theory. This book challenges a new generation of students to think outside the box, and provides scholars of urbanism, archaeology, and anthropology with a fresh perspective on the development of urban society.

Author : Ulrike Tikvah Kissmann,Joost van Loon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658223007

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Discussing New Materialism by Ulrike Tikvah Kissmann,Joost van Loon Pdf

The essays in this volume discuss the various approaches to New Materialism in Sociology and Philosophy. They raise the questions of what New Materialism consists of and whether it in fact should be considered a radical change in Social Theory. Are the ideas of a “material turn”, as the theory is formulated and in its assumptions, foreshadowed by the classical philosophies of Spinoza and Tarde? Do these new approaches bring substantially new perspectives to Social Theory? A further goal of these essays is to formulate the methodological and methodical consequences for its empirical implementation. What conditions must an ethnography of things fulfill if it is to be sufficient? Which participant objects and bodies do the approaches of the various social theories and methodologies include or exclude?

Author : C. Crockett,J. Robbins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137268938

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Religion, Politics, and the Earth by C. Crockett,J. Robbins Pdf

"Following Vattimo's postmodern philosophy, Badiou's postmetaphysical ontology, and i ek's revolutionary style, the authors of this marvelous book invites us to reactivate our politics of resistance against our greatest enemy: corporate capitalism. The best solution to the ecological, energy, and financial crisis corporate capitalism has created, as Crockett Clayton and Jeffrey Robbins suggest, is a new theological materialism where Being is conceived as energy both subjectively and objectively. All my graduate students will have to read this book carefully if they want to become philosophers." - Santiago Zabala, ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona "This is a book of an extraordinary timeliness, written in an accessible and strikingly informative way. It is excellently poised to become a synthetic and agenda setting statement about the implications of a new materialism for the founding of a new radical theology, a new kind of spirituality. I consider this therefore quite a remarkable book which will be influential in ongoing discussions of psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, and theology. Moreover, it will be, quite simply, the best book about spirituality and the new materialism on the market today. While all of the work of the new materialists engage at one level or another the question of a new spirituality, I do not think there is anything comparable in significance to what Crockett and Robbins have provided here." - Ward Blanton, University of Kent "This book will perhaps be most appreciated by the reader with an intuitive cast of mind, able to recognize the force of an argument in its imaginative suggestiveness . . . New Materialism is about energy transformation, we are told, energy which cannot be reduced to matter because it resonates with spirit and life . . . Yet the book strikes a fundamental note of hard reality: 'if we want our civilization to live on earth a little longer we will have to recognize our coexistence with and in earth'." - Christian Ecology Link

Author : Geoff Pfeifer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317605874

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The New Materialism by Geoff Pfeifer Pdf

Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek have become two of the dominant voices in contemporary philosophy and critical theory. In this book, Geoff Pfeifer offers an in-depth look at their respective views. Using Louis Althusser’s materialism as a starting point—which, as Pfeifer shows, was built partially as a response to the Marxism of the Parti Communiste Français and partially in dialogue with other philosophical movements and intellectual currents of its times—the book looks at the differing ways in which both Badiou’s and Žižek’s work attempt to respond to issues that arise within the Althusserian edifice. Pfeifer argues here that, ultimately, Žižek’s materialism succeeds in responding to these issues in ways that Badiou’s does not. In building this argument, Pfeifer engages not only with the work of Althusser, Badiou, and Žižek and their intellectual backgrounds, but also with much of the contemporary scholarship surrounding these thinkers. As such, Pfeifer’s book is an important addition to the ongoing debates within contemporary critical theory.

Author : Hartmut Rosa,Christoph Henning,Arthur Bueno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000400137

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Critical Theory and New Materialisms by Hartmut Rosa,Christoph Henning,Arthur Bueno Pdf

Bringing together authors from two intellectual traditions that have, so far, generally developed independently of one another – critical theory and new materialism – this book addresses the fundamental differences and potential connections that exist between these two schools of thought. With a focus on some of the most pressing questions of contemporary philosophy and social theory – in particular, those concerning the status of long-standing and contested separations between matter and life, the biological and the symbolic, passivity and agency, affectivity and rationality – it shows that recent developments in both traditions point to important convergences between them and thus prepare the ground for a more direct confrontation and cross-fertilization. The first volume to promote a dialogue between critical theory and new materialism, this collection explores the implications for contemporary debates on ecology, gender, biopolitics, post-humanism, economics and aesthetics. As such, it will appeal to philosophers, social and political theorists, and sociologists with interests in contemporary critical theory and materialism.

Author : Thomas Lemke
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781479829934

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The Government of Things by Thomas Lemke Pdf

"Critically engaging with some limitations of new materialist scholarship, Lemke draws on Foucault's concept of a "government of things" to propose a relational understanding of political ontologies"--

Author : Louisa Allen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781349953004

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Sexuality Education and New Materialism by Louisa Allen Pdf

This book aims to explore what queer thinking and new materialist feminist thought might offer the field of sexuality education. It argues that queer theory in education might be queered further by drawing on feminist new materialism and extending itself to subjects beyond sexual and gender identities/issues, including a focus on ‘things’. Allen explores how new materialism as a form of queer thinking, might be brought to bear on other important issues of social justice such as, classroom cultural and religious diversity.

Author : Roger Rothman,Ian Verstegen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443883283

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The Art of the Real by Roger Rothman,Ian Verstegen Pdf

Art of the Real is devoted to registering the materialist turn of contemporary theory in visual studies. For many years, visual studies was dominated by post-structuralist theory and its attendant nominalism. More recently, however, the materialism of Slavoj Žižek, the realism of Gilles Deleuze, especially as imputed by Manuel de Landa, and Alain Badiou has disrupted this status quo. Today, we are more likely to take for granted the relevance of biology and the natural sciences, while the return of Marx has been more serious than countenanced by Derrida or Foucault. This book considers visual studies and the questions that have led to the new materialism, its ontology and its relation to contemporary politics. While a good deal of work has promoted a materialist agenda at the same time that scholars in art history and visual studies have felt liberated by the call to attend to objects, materials and “materiality,” no publication has yet treated this move for its meta-theoretical commitments. This volume does this by addressing the conditions that have brought about the turn to materiality, the ontological commitments that follow on from new materialist metaphysics, and the political implications wrought by these commitments.

Author : Sarah Ellenzweig,John H Zammito
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351976152

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The New Politics of Materialism by Sarah Ellenzweig,John H Zammito Pdf

New materialism challenges conventional theories of understanding human being and subjectivity, which it regards as shaped by mechanistic models characteristic of early modern philosophy that regarded matter as largely passive. Instead it gives weight to topics often overlooked in such accounts: the body, the role of affect and the emotions, gender, temporality, agency and vitalism. This collection, which includes an international roster of contributors from philosophy, history, literature and science, is the first to ask what is 'new' about the new materialism and place it in interdisciplinary perspective. Against current theories of new materialism it argues for a deeper engagement with materialism's history; questions whether matter can be 'lively'; and asks whether new materialism's wish to revitalize of politics and the political lives up to its promise.

Author : Cat Moir
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004272873

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Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism by Cat Moir Pdf

In Ernst Bloch’s Speculative Materialism: Ontology, Epistemology, Politics, Cat Moir offers a new interpretation of the philosophy of Ernst Bloch. The reception of Bloch’s work has seen him variously painted as a naïve realist, a romantic nature philosopher, a totalitarian thinker, and an irrationalist whose obscure literary style stands in for a lack of systematic rigour. Moir challenges these conceptions of Bloch by reconstructing the ontological, epistemological, and political dimensions of his speculative materialism. Through a close, historically contextualised reading of Bloch’s major work of ontology, Das Materialismusproblem, seine Geschichte und Substanz (The Materialism Problem, its History and Substance), Moir presents Bloch as one of the twentieth century’s most significant critical thinkers.

Author : Nathan Snaza,Debbie Sonu,Sarah E. Truman,Zofia Zaliwska
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Agent (Philosophy)
ISBN : 1433131331

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Pedagogical Matters by Nathan Snaza,Debbie Sonu,Sarah E. Truman,Zofia Zaliwska Pdf

Introduction : Re-attuning to the Materiality of Education / Nathan Snaza, Debbie Sonu, Sarah E. Truman, and Zofia Zaliwska -- Curriculum for New Material, New Empirical Inquiry / Elizabeth St. Pierre -- Playgrounds as Sites of Radical Encounters : A Mapping of Material, Affective, Spatial, and Pedagogical Collisions / Linda Knight -- Bodies, Borders, and the Politics of Attention / Nathan Snaza and Debbie Sonu -- Matter, Movement, and Memory / Elizabeth de Freitas and Francesca Ferrarra -- Meditating with Bees : Weather Bodies and a Pedagogy of Movement / Stephanie Springgay -- The Sound of Silence : The Material Consequences of Scholarship / Walter Gershon -- Intratextual Entanglements : A Multi-participant Investigation into the Generative Potential of Texts / Sarah Truman -- The Zombie in the Room : Using Popular Culture as an Apparatus / Gabe Huddleston -- Moving-Back-Through : A Matter of Research / Zofia Zaliwska -- Life at Large New Materialisms for a (Re)new(ing) Curriculum of Social Studies Education / Mark Helmsing -- A Matter of Power / Kirsten Robbins -- Multiple Materiality Across Distributed Social Media / Paul Eaton -- Moving Toward Practices that Matter /y Nikki Rotas

Author : Holly Thorpe,Julie Brice,Marianne Clark
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030565807

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Feminist New Materialisms, Sport and Fitness by Holly Thorpe,Julie Brice,Marianne Clark Pdf

This book offers the first critical examination of the contributions of feminist new materialist thought to the study of sport, fitness, and physical culture. Bringing feminist new materialist theory into a lively dialogue with sport studies, it highlights the possibilities and challenges of engaging with posthumanist and new materialist theories. With empirical examples and pedagogical offerings woven throughout, the book makes complex new materialist concepts and theories highly accessible. It vividly illustrates sporting matter as lively, vital, and agentic. Engaging specifically with the methodological, theoretical, ethical and political challenges of feminist new materialisms, it elaborates understandings of moving bodies and their entanglements with human, non-human, technological, biological, cultural, and environmental forces in contemporary society. This book extends humanist, representationalist, and discursive approaches that have characterized the landscape of critical research on active bodies, and invites new imaginings and articulations for sport and moving bodies in uncertain times and unknown futures.