A Vitalist Stopover on the Way to a New Materialism

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introducing the New Materialisms 1
5. The Force of Materiality
6. A Vitalist Stopover on the Way to a New Materialism 47
7. Non-Dialectical Materialism 70
8. The Inertia of Matter and the Generativity of Flesh 92
9. Impersonal Matter 116
10. Political Matters
11. Feminism, Materialism, and Freedom 139
12. Fear and the Illusion of Autonomy 158
13. Materialities of Experience 178
14. The Politics of ‘‘Life Itself ’’ and New Ways of Dying 201
15. Economies of Disruption
16. The Elusive Material, What the Dog Doesn’t Understand 221
17. Orientations Matter 234
18. Simone de Beauvoir: Engaging Discrepant Materialisms 258
19. The Materialism of Historical Materialism 281
20. Bibliography 299
21. Contributors 319
22. Index 323