What If Culture Was Nature All Along?

ISBN-13: 9781474419291 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 272 str.

Vicki Kirby

Opis

This collection of essays is in kinship with this radical shake-up of how and what we study - and it also aims to re-navigate what constitutes materiality. These efforts are summed up by a rewriting of the Derridean axiom'there is no outside text'as'there is no outside nature.

Spis treści

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.