Jane Bennett is Professor of Political Theory and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.
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.
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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 ...
評分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 ...
評分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 ...
評分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 ...
評分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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這本書當年是過得很細緻的。過瞭幾年想起來纔標注。Bennett很明確其目的,對vital materialism提齣挑戰並且在第一章就鮮明得指齣要去人類中心化。Matter matters,politically.這個提法在當時是radical的,但其懸置“人”中心的方式仍然停留在修辭層麵。一種擬人化的倫理層麵的政治討論。可是這種“物的擬人化”似乎和“人的物化”形成呼應後反而削弱瞭其政治訴求,讓political ecology變成瞭無解的命題,同時對於"actant"和“agency”的討論也止步於此。所以“如何走嚮民主”,她並沒有給齣答案。我記得課上教授最後用一個量子力學的理論做類比,並提問“偶然不可預測”是否可以成為實現民主的(一種)可能性?但今天我仍然不懂她第三章的意義。
評分ANT (Agent-Network theory) 具有某種政治傾嚮性的materialism theory, 直覺感覺明明可以很左,但由於物質導嚮和ecology跟marxism擦身而過
評分以ontological monism立場挑戰人類中心主義所預設的主客二元,並藉由政治-生態的類比來勾勒“物的政治生態學”。開篇便聲明要懸擱“人”的問題,而這一去中心化姿態恰恰使全書在勾勒vibrant matter時不得不在離心與嚮心之間反復。作者對此的辯護主要訴諸於擬人化修辭的倫理價值(即通過修辭進一步提示人與物的親緣性),但由於Bennett堅持vital materialism要與historical materialism劃清界限,這種flat ontology無法也無意處理與“物的人化”恰成鏡像的“人的物化”,很難說是否會導齣flat ethics & politics。
評分新物質主義還是有很多問題啊
評分多讀再想想political ecology
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