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What if Culture was Nature all Along? / Vicki Kirby.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Materialisms : NEMAPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474419291
  • 9781474419307
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 146/.3 23
LOC classification:
  • B825 .W46 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Matter out of Place: 'New Materialism' in Review -- 2 Method Matters: The Ethics of Exclusion -- 3 Sensory Substitution: The Plasticity of the Eye/I -- 4 Allergy as the Puzzle of Causality -- 5 Pregnant Men: Paternal Postnatal Depression and a Culture of Hormones -- 6 Material Culture: Epigenetics and the Molecularisation of the Social -- 7 Racialised Visual Encounters -- 8 Microbiology as Sociology: The Strange Sociality of Slime -- 9 Nature Represents Itself: Bibliophilia in a Changing Climate -- 10 Climate Change, Socially Synchronised: Are We Really Running out of Time? -- 11 A Sociality of Death: Towards a New Materialist Politics and Ethics of Life Itself -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: Gives you the tools to navigate 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Matter out of Place: 'New Materialism' in Review -- 2 Method Matters: The Ethics of Exclusion -- 3 Sensory Substitution: The Plasticity of the Eye/I -- 4 Allergy as the Puzzle of Causality -- 5 Pregnant Men: Paternal Postnatal Depression and a Culture of Hormones -- 6 Material Culture: Epigenetics and the Molecularisation of the Social -- 7 Racialised Visual Encounters -- 8 Microbiology as Sociology: The Strange Sociality of Slime -- 9 Nature Represents Itself: Bibliophilia in a Changing Climate -- 10 Climate Change, Socially Synchronised: Are We Really Running out of Time? -- 11 A Sociality of Death: Towards a New Materialist Politics and Ethics of Life Itself -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Gives you the tools to navigate 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?"

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)