Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Foreword viii
5. 1 Matter out of Place: ‘New Materialism’ in Review 1
6. 2 Method Matters: The Ethics of Exclusion 26
7. 3 Sensory Substitution: The Plasticity of the Eye/I 48
8. 4 Allergy as the Puzzle of Causality 70
9. 5 Pregnant Men: Paternal Postnatal Depression and a Culture of Hormones 90
10. 6 Material Culture: Epigenetics and the Molecularisation of the Social 110
11. 7 Racialised Visual Encounters 134
12. 8 Microbiology as Sociology: The Strange Sociality of Slime 153
13. 9 Nature Represents Itself: Bibliophilia in a Changing Climate 179
14. 10 Climate Change, Socially Synchronised: Are We Really Running out of Time? 199
15. 11 A Sociality of Death: Towards a New Materialist Politics and Ethics of Life Itself 223
16. Notes on Contributors 248
17. Index 251