"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
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