{"product_id":"new-materialisms-ontology-agency-and-politics-paperback","title":"New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDiana Coole\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Materialisms\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoole 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eSara Ahmed\u003cbr\u003eJane Bennett\u003cbr\u003eRosi Braidotti\u003cbr\u003ePheng Cheah\u003cbr\u003eRey Chow\u003cbr\u003eWilliam E. Connolly\u003cbr\u003eDiana Coole\u003cbr\u003eJason Edwards\u003cbr\u003eSamantha Frost\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Grosz\u003cbr\u003eSonia Kruks\u003cbr\u003eMelissa A. Orlie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a strong and timely collection, one that could very well direct future discussions of the 'new materialisms' toward an experimental, process-oriented, and politically-engaged 'new ontology.'--Ellen Rooney, Brown University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiana Coole is Professor of Political and Social Theory at Birkbeck College, University of London, England. She is the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eMerleau-Ponty and Modern Politics after Anti-Humanism\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a Leverhulme Research Fellow, 2010-13.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamantha Frost is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, the Gender and Women's Studies Program, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eLessons from a Materialist Thinker: Hobbesian Reflections on Ethics and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703035326771,"sku":"9780822347729","price":55.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/dEtvWnd5V2l1U3dBeStXc252cGNKQT09.webp?v=1763315988","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/new-materialisms-ontology-agency-and-politics-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}