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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"vital materialism"”.
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MATERIAL MEDIATION: WOMEN, CONNECTION, AND VITAL MATERIALISM IN VIRGINIA WOOLF’S MRS DALLOWAY, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, AND BETWEEN THE ACTS
… exploring the ways in which she portrays the vitality and power of nonhuman matter. Yet moving beyond a consideration only of the nonhuman on its own, or in conjunction with individual human beings, this paper highlights the presence of the nonhuman within human relationships, part of a …
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Feral objects and acts of domestic piracy: sculpture, secular magic, and strategies of feminist disruption
… encounter and ask, what might a feminist new materialism look like when the focus is on domestic objects, and how can we draw meaning from these objects when they perform as sculpture? I propose a category of material culture I call ‘feral objects’, the overlooked and undervalued materiality …
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Affective materials: a processual, relational, and material ethnography of creative making in community and primary care groups
… powers, and highlights the relevance of a ‘vital materialism’ (Bennett, 2010) for understanding the potential benefits of manual creativity. Sustained observation also produces a situated, spatial account of the extended networks of community belonging produced by the activities of such …
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CLIMATE AS ASSEMBLAGE: IMAGINING AN ECOLOGICAL METAPHYSIC
… both humans and nonhumans. I draw from vital materialist Jane Bennett to explore the concept of assemblage, and I offer an indication of what this reconceptualization would look like for climate. Climate-as-assemblage brings to light numerous and diverse nonhuman forces, or actants, and …
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CLIMATE AS ASSEMBLAGE: IMAGINING AN ECOLOGICAL METAPHYSIC
… both humans and nonhumans. I draw from vital materialist Jane Bennett to explore the concept of assemblage, and I offer an indication of what this reconceptualization would look like for climate. Climate-as-assemblage brings to light numerous and diverse nonhuman forces, or actants, and …