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. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a “vital materiality” that runs through and across bodies, both human and nonhuman. Bennett explores how political analyses of public events might change were we to acknowledge that agency always emerges as the effect of ad hoc configurations of human and nonhuman forces. She suggests that recognizing that agency is distributed this way, and is not solely the province of humans, might spur the cultivation of a more responsible, ecologically sound politics: a politics less devoted to blaming and condemning individuals than to discerning the web of forces affecting situations and events.
Bennett examines the political and theoretical implications of vital materialism through extended discussions of commonplace things and physical phenomena including stem cells, fish oils, electricity, metal, and trash. She reflects on the vital power of material formations such as landfills, which generate lively streams of chemicals, and omega-3 fatty acids, which can transform brain chemistry and mood. Along the way, she engages with the concepts and claims of Spinoza, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Darwin, Adorno, and Deleuze, disclosing a long history of thinking about vibrant matter in Western philosophy, including attempts by Kant, Bergson, and the embryologist Hans Driesch to name the “vital force” inherent in material forms. Bennett concludes by sketching the contours of a “green materialist” ecophilosophy.
0 有用 ピザパン 2021-07-13 03:23:25
看不懂系列呜呜
2 有用 群 レイ 2021-12-24 02:12:09
讓人十分恨鐵不成鋼。過重的例證與術語負荷、模糊而脆弱的論證,支撐起本應潛力十足的任務。 雖然最終得到的政治與生態學結論令人同情,但這遠遠不夠,沿著這一路徑走下去大概只能得到一種flat的形而上學,它無法繼続探討何謂matter。
0 有用 了不起的苏小姐 2013-10-31 11:37:04
太有营养了,慢慢看
0 有用 猪猪贝 2022-06-05 00:58:42
追溯斯宾诺莎-尼采-梭罗-柏格森-德勒兹的思想谱系,以“物力”打破生命与非生命间的区隔。人的本质是各种作用方向不同的力量!传统的人/物等级秩序解体,源自人类中心主义的安全感丧失后,世界将会怎样?责任一章,将个人之恶放大为体制之罪,在谴责中应有所保留,有点类似阿伦特的命题。
4 有用 tifanie 2016-05-24 19:18:09
新物质主义还是有很多问题啊
0 有用 第欧根尼流向 2024-04-16 08:42:45 江苏
清楚地知道对手有什么结论及盟友有有哪些成果,更清楚自己想要取得什么样的结果,但不清楚该怎么通过援引盟友、批评对手来取得想要的结果。
0 有用 rua狗了吗 2024-03-30 22:37:58 美国
一坨大便
0 有用 海边的小卡罗 2024-02-12 00:09:55 江苏
Vital (new) materialism.
0 有用 半人馬的Z 2024-01-24 05:05:48 美国
走過intro後 後面好很多. 第七第八章感覺印象更深刻一些. Many aspects to reflect upon, and also my intro to New Materialism I suppose.
0 有用 Grey 2024-01-04 23:14:57 比利时
Bennet has said that she should be a geographer instead of a political theorist.