What if Culture was Nature all Along? (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kirby, Vicki

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Navigational tools towards a non-reductionist naturalism where matter is chameleon and agentialNew 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474419314
• Artikelnr.: 50404160

Autorenporträt

Vicki Kirby is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, The University of New South Wales. The motivating question in her research is the riddle of the nature/culture division because so many political and ethical evaluations and decisions are configured in terms of this opposition. Books include Quantum Anthropologies: Life at Large (Duke 2011); Judith Butler: Live Theory (Continuum 2006) and Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements, Foreword
1 Matter out of Place: 'New Materialism' in Review, Vicki Kirby
2 Method Matters: The Ethics of Exclusion, Ashley Barnwell
3 Sensory Substitution: The Plasticity of the Eye/I, Florence Chiew
4 Allergy as the Puzzle of Causality, Michelle Jamieson
5 Pregnant Men: Paternal Postnatal Depression and a Culture of Hormones, Rebecca Oxley
6 Material Culture: Epigenetics and the Molecularisation of the Social, Noela Davis
7 Racialised Visual Encounters, Xin Liu
8 Microbiology as Sociology: The Strange Sociality of Slime, Jacqueline Dalziell
9 Nature Represents Itself: Bibliophilia in the Anthropocene, Astrida Neimanis
10 Climate Change, Socially Synchronised: Are We Really Running out of Time?, Will Johncock
11 A Sociality of Death: Towards a New Materialist Politics and Ethics of Life Itself, Peta Hinton
Notes on Contributors, Index.