Jane Bennett is Professor of Political Theory and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.
发表于2024-09-27
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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 ...
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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.
这本书当年是过得很细致的。过了几年想起来才标注。Bennett很明确其目的,对vital materialism提出挑战并且在第一章就鲜明得指出要去人类中心化。Matter matters,politically.这个提法在当时是radical的,但其悬置“人”中心的方式仍然停留在修辞层面。一种拟人化的伦理层面的政治讨论。可是这种“物的拟人化”似乎和“人的物化”形成呼应后反而削弱了其政治诉求,让political ecology变成了无解的命题,同时对于"actant"和“agency”的讨论也止步于此。所以“如何走向民主”,她并没有给出答案。我记得课上教授最后用一个量子力学的理论做类比,并提问“偶然不可预测”是否可以成为实现民主的(一种)可能性?但今天我仍然不懂她第三章的意义。
评分非常喜欢。
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
评分还是讲得挺清楚的,清楚到我第一次搞懂了assemblage这个词是从哪里来的。。。
评分大体讲得是propose a political ecology that share democracy among humans and non-humans. Bennett是支持vital materialism的,还有culture,nature不分家。有提到anthropomorphism, 但是讲得更多的是这有利于更重视nonhumans in ecology.
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