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What if Culture was Nature all Along?

Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2017

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Navigational tools towards a non-reductionist naturalism where matter is chameleon and agential
New materialisms argue for a more science-friendly humanities, ventilating questions about methodology and subject matter and the importance of the non-human. However, these new sites of attention – climate, biology, affect, geology, animals and objects – tend to leverage their difference against language and the discursive. Similarly, questions about ontology have come to eclipse, and even eschew, those of epistemology.
While this collection of essays is in kinship with this radical shake-up of how and what we study, the aim is to re-navigate what constitutes materiality. These efforts are encapsulated by a rewriting of the Derridean axiom, ‘there is no outside text’ as ‘there is no outside nature.’ What if nature has always been literate, numerate, social? And what happens to ‘the human’ if its exceptional identity and status is conceded quantum, non-local and ecological implication?

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    Contents

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    Acknowledgements

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    Foreword

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    1 Matter out of Place: ‘New Materialism’ in Review

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    Vicki Kirby
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    2 Method Matters: The Ethics of Exclusion

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    Ashley Barnwell
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    3 Sensory Substitution: The Plasticity of the Eye/I

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    Florence Chiew
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    4 Allergy as the Puzzle of Causality

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    Michelle Jamieson
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    5 Pregnant Men: Paternal Postnatal Depression and a Culture of Hormones

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    Rebecca Oxley
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    6 Material Culture: Epigenetics and the Molecularisation of the Social

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    Noela Davis
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    7 Racialised Visual Encounters

    134
    Xin Liu
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    8 Microbiology as Sociology: The Strange Sociality of Slime

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    Jacqueline Dalziell
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    9 Nature Represents Itself: Bibliophilia in a Changing Climate

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    Astrida Neimanis
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    10 Climate Change, Socially Synchronised: Are We Really Running out of Time?

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    Will Johncock
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    11 A Sociality of Death: Towards a New Materialist Politics and Ethics of Life Itself

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    Peta Hinton
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    Notes on Contributors

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    Index

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Philosophy
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