Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
7 best books like Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Jane Bennett): Clotel: or, The President's Daughter, The Undying, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, The Posthuman, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, Speculum of the Other Woman
| Author | William Wells Brown |
| ISBN | 0142437727 |
First published in December 1853, Clotel was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with one of his slaves. The story begins with the auction of his mistress, here called Currer, and their two daughters, Clotel and Althesa. The Virginian who buys Clotel falls...
Award-winning poet and essayist Anne Boyer delivers a one-of-a-kind meditation on illness in the age of data—sharing her true story of coping with cancer, both the illness and the industry, in The Undying.
A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed...
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0679724699 |
This is a perfect example of the kind of writing characterised by Clive James as prose that ‘scorns the earth for fear of a puncture’. Foucault may be able to think – it's not easy to tell – but he certainly can't write.
Everywhere there is an apparent desire to render a simple thought impenetrable....
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
| Author | Timothy Morton |
| ISBN | 0816689237 |
Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global...
| Author | Rosi Braidotti |
| ISBN | 0745641571 |
The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated...
| Author | Mel Y. Chen |
| ISBN | 0822352729 |
In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly, animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the...
| Author | Luce Irigaray |
| ISBN | 0801493307 |
Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray is incontestably one of the most important works in feminist theory to have been published in this generation. For the profession of psychoanalysis, Irigaray believes, female sexuality has remained a "dark continent," unfathomable and unapproachable;...
