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The Force of Things: Steps toward an Ecology of Matter
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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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- Authors
- Bennett, J.
- Venue
- Political Theory
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2004-06
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 347-372
- ISSN
- 0090-5917 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7476
- OpenAlex
- W2159272757
- Cited by
- 861
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 181.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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