a John Hope Franklin Center Book: Vibrant Matter : A Political Ecology of Things (Paperback)

from amydross

Some intriguing ideas raised about the way inanimate objects exert their own force in the world -- it put me in mind of the work of Joseph Beuys, but with neither his whimsy nor loopy conviction. Bennett starts with an interesting concept, but remains necessarily vague about what effects it might...

from veranasi

I can't believe I put all my recreational reading on hold for this! Bennett has an interesting concept, but as so many others have/will note: there's nothing new and there's nothing here (outside of Bennett's grasp of philosophy) that you couldn't find in a New Ager's anthology. I don't think thi...

from DarthDeverell

In Jane Bennett's Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, she explores the role of inanimate bodies and how humans interact with them. Vibrant Matter serves as Bennett's manifesto for the benefits of anthropomorphizing. Bennett writes, "I believe it is wrong to deny vitality to nonhuman bo...

from brleach

An excellent primer on new materialisms/object-oriented ontologies and their relevance to political theory.