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Informed by recent developments in literary criticism and social theory, In the Nature of Things addresses the presumption that nature exists independent of culture and, in particular, of language. The theoretical approaches of the contributors represent
In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recogni
In influx & efflux Jane Bennett pursues a question that was bracketed in her book Vibrant Matter :how to think about human agency in a world teeming with powerful nonhuman influences? Influx & efflux-a phrase borrowedfrom Whitman's "Song of Mysel
Da det nordamerikanskeelnet i 2003 satte ud i flere dage, konstaterede man, at ingen havde fuldforståelse for det enorme, skyggefulde netværk af transmissionsledninger,elværker og understationer. Man begyndte at tale om, at nettet havdehjerteflimmer og le
It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is s
Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild explores how Thoreau crafted a life open to 'the Wild,' a term that marks the startling element of foreignness in every object of experience, however familiar. Thoreau's encounters with natu