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.
Jane Bennett is Professor of Political Theory and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.
Critical Case Study Review Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things In traditional thoughts, politics belongs to the concern of men, precisely so in the polis from the Classical world (e.g., Aristotle 1995). Although more recent literature on politics ...
评分Critical Case Study Review Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things In traditional thoughts, politics belongs to the concern of men, precisely so in the polis from the Classical world (e.g., Aristotle 1995). Although more recent literature on politics ...
评分Critical Case Study Review Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things In traditional thoughts, politics belongs to the concern of men, precisely so in the polis from the Classical world (e.g., Aristotle 1995). Although more recent literature on politics ...
评分Critical Case Study Review Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things In traditional thoughts, politics belongs to the concern of men, precisely so in the polis from the Classical world (e.g., Aristotle 1995). Although more recent literature on politics ...
评分Critical Case Study Review Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things In traditional thoughts, politics belongs to the concern of men, precisely so in the polis from the Classical world (e.g., Aristotle 1995). Although more recent literature on politics ...
Acknowledging agentic capacities intrinsic to matter, subverting the life/matter binary, and challenging Kantian a priori with epistemological categories that are empirical. 有待商榷之处:human actants与事件因果割裂,如何/是否可能有效介入事件?Human&nonhuman水平化,行动成为conjoint action of assemblages,是否反会带来相对主义?历史唯物主义的物质观必然是人类中心主义的吗?作者推崇的anthropomorphizing作为隐喻手段在本体-喻体之间是否仍暗藏等级秩序?
评分以ontological monism立场挑战人类中心主义所预设的主客二元,并借由政治-生态的类比来勾勒“物的政治生态学”。开篇便声明要悬搁“人”的问题,而这一去中心化姿态恰恰使全书在勾勒vibrant matter时不得不在离心与向心之间反复。作者对此的辩护主要诉诸于拟人化修辞的伦理价值(即通过修辞进一步提示人与物的亲缘性),但由于Bennett坚持vital materialism要与historical materialism划清界限,这种flat ontology无法也无意处理与“物的人化”恰成镜像的“人的物化”,很难说是否会导出flat ethics & politics。
评分ANT (Agent-Network theory) 具有某种政治倾向性的materialism theory, 直觉感觉明明可以很左,但由于物质导向和ecology跟marxism擦身而过
评分多读再想想political ecology
评分ANT (Agent-Network theory) 具有某种政治倾向性的materialism theory, 直觉感觉明明可以很左,但由于物质导向和ecology跟marxism擦身而过
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