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    Political Matter
    Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life

    Bruce Braun (Edited by), Sarah J. Whatmore (Edited by), Isabelle Stengers (Contributions by), Jane Bennett (Contributions by)

    9780816670895

    Paperback / softback, published 3 September 2010

    328 pages
    21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.468 kg

    Taking seriously the argument that things have politics, Political Matter seeks to develop a fully materialist theory of politics, one that opens new possibilities for imagining the relationship between scientific and political practices. The contributors assert that without such a theory the profusion of complex materials with and through which we live-plastic bags, smart cars, and long-life lightbulbs, for example-too often leaves us oscillating between fearful repudiation and glib celebration.
    Exploring the frictions that come from linking the work of scholars in science and technology studies and political theory, these essays spark new ways of understanding the matter of politics.

    Contributors: Andrew Barry, U of Oxford; Jane Bennett, Johns Hopkins U; Stephen J. Collier, New School; William E. Connolly, Johns Hopkins U; Rosalyn Diprose, U of New South Wales; Lisa Disch, U of Michigan; Gay Hawkins, U of New South Wales; Andrew Lakoff, UC San Diego; Noortje Marres, U of London; Isabelle Stengers, U Libre de Bruxelles; Nigel Thrift, U of Warwick.

    Contents
    Acknowledgements
    The Stuff of Politics: An Introduction
    Bruce Braun and Sarah Whatmore
    Part I. Rematerializing Political Theory: Things Forcing Thought
    1. Including Nonhumans in Political Theory: Opening Pandora's Box?
    Isabelle Stengers
    2. Thing-Power
    Jane Bennett
    3. Materiality, Experience, and Surveillance
    William E. Connolly
    Part II. Technological Politics: Affective Objects and Events
    4. Materialist Politics: Metallurgy
    Andrew Barry
    5. Plastic Materialities
    Gay Hawkins
    6. Halos: Making More Room in the World for New Political Orders
    Nigel Thrift
    Part III. Political Technologies: Public (Dis)Orderings
    7. Frontstaging Nonhumans: Publicity as a Constraint on the Political Activity of Things
    Noortje Marres
    8. The Political Technology of RU486: Time for the Body and Democracy
    Rosalyn Diprose
    9. Infrastructure and Event: The Political Technology of Preparedness
    Andrew Lakoff and Stephen J. Collier
    10. "
    Faitiche"
    -izing the People: What Representative Democracy Might Learn from Science Studies
    Lisa Disch
    Contributors
    Index
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