New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics

Coole and Frost argue that contemporary economic, environmental, geopolitical, and technological developments demand new accounts of nature, agency, and social and political relationships; modes of inquiry that privilege consciousness and subjectivity are not adequate to the task. New materialist philosophies are needed to do justice to the complexities of twenty-first-century biopolitics and political economy, because they raise fundamental questions about the place of embodied humans in a material world and the ways that we produce, reproduce, and consume our material environment.

Contributors
Sara Ahmed
Jane Bennett
Rosi Braidotti
Pheng Cheah
Rey Chow
William E. Connolly
Diana Coole
Jason Edwards
Samantha Frost
Elizabeth Grosz
Sonia Kruks
Melissa A. Orlie

• Material Feminisms
• New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies
• Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
• Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
• Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
• Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything
• A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
• A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Forerunners: Ideas First)
• Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
• The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins