A political ecology of things, bennett s argument is that, edibles, commodities, storms, and metals act as quasi agents, with their own trajectories, potentialities and tendencies. Jane bennett born july 31, 1957 is an american political theorist and philosopher. Artistry and agency in a world of vibrant matter print pdf. She is the author of the enchantment of modern life. Vibrant matter jane bennett a political ecology of things. I begin with bogost, move to bennett, and conclude with a.
Jane bennetts vibrant matter is an important work, linking critical movements in recent continental philosophy. Apr 22, 2010 jane bennetts vibrant matter is an important work, linking critical movements in recent continental philosophy, namely a vitalist tradition that runs from bergson to deleuze and even, on bennetts reading, bruno latour, with a political ecology of things that should speak to anyone conscious enough to be aware of the devastating. Vibrant matter is a lucid and compelling account of how materiality, too often considered as an inert substance, can be rethought as a plethora of things that form assemblages of human and nonhuman actors or actants, to use the term bennett takes from bruno latour. I begin with bogost, move to bennett, and conclude with a reading of macaulays childrens book, which productively, if. A third opportunity highlighted by kitchers book for our field. Bennett claims that her ambition is to develop a positive ontology of matter as vibrant, and to dismantle the divisions between the binaries lifematter. Jane bennetts vibrant matter is an important work, linking critical movements in recent continental philosophy, namely a vitalist tradition that runs from bergson to deleuze and even, on bennetts reading, bruno latour, with a political ecology of things that should speak to anyone conscious enough to be aware of the devastating. This is an elegant book and it really gives itself over to descriptions of. Ive just finished jane bennetts vibrant matter, which is an attempt to refocus social and political theory on the power of things and materiality. Jane bennett is professor of political theory and chair of the department of political science at johns hopkins university. Mar 12, 2010 in vibrant matter the political theorist jane bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves.
Jan 04, 2010 in vibrant matter the political theorist jane bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Read vibrant matter pdf a political ecology of things a john hope franklin center book ebook by jane bennett epub. Jane bennetts vibrant matter is an important work, linking critical movements in recent continental philosophy, namely a vitalist tradition that runs from bergson to deleuze and even, on bennetts reading, to bruno latour, and on the other hand a political ecology. First, it is wonderfully written in a comfortable personal style, which is rare enough for academic books. Her distinctive notion of vibrant matter invokes a new and different political imaginary outside the hegelian and psychoanalytic framework of the. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read vibrant matter. This book has a philosophical project and, related to it, a political one. By focusing on the thingside of affect, jane bennett seeks to broaden and transform our sense of care in relation to the world of humans, nonhuman life, and things. May 25, 2010 jane bennetts vibrant matter is an important work, linking critical movements in recent continental philosophy, namely a vitalist tradition that runs from bergson to deleuze and even, on bennetts reading, bruno latour, with a political ecology of things that should speak to anyone conscious enough to be aware of the devastating. Jane bennett in vibrant matter the political theorist jane bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. In vibrant matter the political theorist jane bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things. Mar 25, 2010 jane bennetts vibrant matter is an important work, linking critical movements in recent continental philosophy, namely a vitalist tradition that runs from bergson to deleuze and even, on bennetts reading, to bruno latour, and on the other hand a political ecology of things that should speak to anyone conscious enough to be aware of the devastating changes underway in the world.
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Vibrant matter a john hope franklin center book jane bennett vibrant matter a political ecology of things duke uni. Last night i finished jane bennetts vibrant matter. Jane bennetts vibrant matter is an important work, linking critical movements in recent continental philosophy, namely a vitalist tradition that runs from bergson to deleuze and even, on bennetts reading, to bruno latour, and on the other hand a political ecology of things that should speak to anyone conscious enough to be aware of the devastating changes underway in the world. A political ecology of things a john hope franklin. Steps toward an ecology of matter show all authors.
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Jane bennett, professor of political theory at the department of political science at johns hopkins university, published her awaited book vibrant matter. A life is a vitality proper not to any individual but to pure immanence, or that protean swarm that is not actual though it is real. Alien phenomenology, or what its like to be a thing by ian. Vibrant matter a political ecology of things jane bennett. A political ecology of things ebook written by jane bennett. He is also coeditorinchief for the acm interactions magazine and an editor for the design theory book series for mit press. In vibrant matter the political theorist jane bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. In the first two chapters of her book vibrant matter, bennett brings out a philosophy that challenges the traditional definition of matter as passive, inactive, and inert. Her distinctive notion of vibrant matter invokes a new and different political imaginary outside the hegelian and psychoanalytic framework of the subject and objectother relation. Aug 23, 2019 read vibrant matter pdf a political ecology of things a john hope franklin center book ebook by jane bennett epub. She calls us to consider a parliament of things in ways that provoke our democratic. Now that i sometimes can find the leisure to read a book, bennetts latest has been at the top of my list.
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Bennett builds on the ideas of early twentiethcentury critical vitalists, as well as the ideas of deleuze and guattari, to bring together materiality, affect, and vitalism. A political ecology of things has itself been a vibrant matter of attention since its publication earlier this year. Ethics, politics, and the wild, and an editor of the politics of moralizing and in the nature of things. And, indeed, her book sometimes reads as a sort of manifestothough i suspect she would shy away from the term. May 11, 2010 in a new book by jane bennett vibrant matter a political ecology of things one such position is presented. Second, bennett makes an explicit break with the timeworn dogmas of postmodernist academia. Toward that end, she theorizes a vital materiality that runs through and. Attachments, crossings, and ethics and thoreaus nature. Vibrant matter is a fascinating, lucid, and powerful book of political theory. Im not sure why my first post on the book didnt contain the following excerpt it obviously needs to be shared. First, it is wonderfully written in a comfortable personal style, which is rare enough.