Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things

By Jane Bennett. 2010

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Consumer and Object Experience in the Internet of Things: An Assemblage Theory Approach (2018, background): “The consumer and the consumer experience assemblage are nested within the larger consumer-object assemblage like Russian dolls (Bennett 2010; Canniford and Bajde 2016).”
A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations (2020, background): “…and Turnbull 2019); Indigenous studies (Martin and Mirraboopa 2003; Bawaka Country et al. 2013); social and political theory (Coole and Frost 2010; Bennett 2010), political ecology (Swyngedouw and Heynen 2003; Jarosz 2011), organization studies (Langley and Tsoukas 2017), environmental humanities…”
Diagram, gesture, agency: theorizing embodiment in the mathematics classroom (2012, background): “Post-humanist theories of subjectivity, however, have shown how subjects are constituted as assemblages of dispersed social networks, and have argued that the human body itself must be conceived in terms of malleable borders and distributed networks (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987; Bennett, 2010; Rotman, ”
Energy infrastructure and the fate of the nation: Introduction to special issue (2018, background): “However, Barry and Bennett arrive at quite different understandings of how materials become political [76].”
Writing Slow Ontology (2017, background): “In these regards, the turn toward materialism in slower visual and sensory methodologies can be seen in the new materialisms as a whole (e.g., Bennett, 2009; Hekman, 2010; Kirby, 2011).”
The wrong bin bag: A turn to ontology in science and technology studies? (2013, background): “Despite many claims linking an interest in ontological matters with the emergence of ‘new materialisms’ (see, for instance, Bennett, 2010; Coole and Frost, 2010), there is no obvious reason why the ‘ontic turn’ should imply or be coupled with a presumption of the agential power of matter.”
On the discrepancy between objects and things: An ecological approach (2016, background): “…moments when scholars have dwelled on the topic of maintenance and repair, they have tended to focus on those spectacular moments of breakdown and failure, when things fall outside their object-positions and systems go ‘out of order’ (Bennett, 2009: 20–38; Graham and Thrift, 2007; Latour, 1996).”
Materials and devices of the public: an introduction (2011, background): “…and physical bodies at the centre of classic articulations of political ontology, from Lucretius to Marx, via Hobbes or Spinoza (Bennett, 2001, Bennett, 2010; Cheah & Robbins, 1998; Coole & Frost, 2010; Frost, 2005, 2008; Skinner, 2009).4 The papers in this special section combine these…”
Affective assemblages: body matters in the pedagogic practices of contemporary school classrooms (2012, background): “It affords recognition of the idea that materiality is governed by relations of indeterminacy, contingency and openness (Blackman 2008) and that far from being passive or inert, matter is a lively force that actively participates in events (Bennett 2010).”
The Morphology of Marronage (2020, background): “…to an established body of literature on the human as nature (Haraway 1990, 2008; Latour 1993; Conty 2018), the subhuman as nature (Wynter 1971; Gossett 2017; Puar 2017; Wright 2018), and animate and inanimate objects as forces of nature (Whatmore 2002; Braun 2005; Khan 2009; Bennett 2010).”
Living Multiples: How Large-scale Scientific Data-mining Pursues Identity and Differences (2013, background): “…the wake of ANT (Actor Network Theory), OOO (Object Oriented Ontology) (LarvalSubjects, 2012), and a generally resurgent interest in materialities and vitalities (Bennett, 2009) or post-biopolitical life (Rabinow and Rose, 2003), we can begin to recognize proteins as fully ﬂedged ontological forms.”
The Human Sciences in a Biological Age (2013, background): “Many participants in these debates have recently become critical of their overly discursive nature and sought to return to some version of materialism (Bennett, 2010).”
The politics of sustainability transitions (2016, background): “This resonates with wider discussions on the co-production of science and social order (Jasanoff, 2004), Dingpolitik and Res Publica (Latour, 2005), the ‘power of things’ (Bennett, 2009) and ‘material participation’ (Marres, 2012), as well as debates within transition research on the ‘politics of th”
On showing and being shown plants - a guide to methods for more-than-human geography (2015, background): “Vitalist ontologies demonstrate the inaccuracy of regarding humans as the only source of agency (Bennett 2010), and attention to plants demonstrates their capacity to affect others through distinct modes of intervention (Head and Atchison 2009; Jones and Cloke 2002).”
Assemblage Theory and Its Discontents (2015, background): “than that because ANT uses the assemblage to name a complex form of causality which Jane Bennett (2010) usefully defines as distributive because of the way it rejects both direct and indirect causality in favour of a third option which attributes causality to the whole network of interacting element”