{"product_id":"political-matter-technoscience-democracy-and-public-life-paperback-softback-9780816670895","title":"Political Matter; Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816670895","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePolitical Matter\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTechnoscience, Democracy, and Public Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBruce Braun (Edited by), Sarah J. Whatmore (Edited by), Isabelle Stengers (Contributions by), Jane Bennett (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816670895\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 September 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.468 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eTaking seriously the argument that things have politics, Political Matter seeks to develop a fully \u003ci\u003ematerialist\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003eExploring 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eContributors: 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e The Stuff of Politics: An Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Bruce Braun and Sarah Whatmore\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Rematerializing Political Theory: Things Forcing Thought\u003cbr\u003e 1. Including Nonhumans in Political Theory: Opening Pandora's Box?\u003cbr\u003e Isabelle Stengers\u003cbr\u003e 2. Thing-Power\u003cbr\u003e Jane Bennett\u003cbr\u003e 3. Materiality, Experience, and Surveillance\u003cbr\u003e William E. Connolly\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Technological Politics: Affective Objects and Events\u003cbr\u003e 4. Materialist Politics: Metallurgy\u003cbr\u003e Andrew Barry\u003cbr\u003e 5. Plastic Materialities\u003cbr\u003e Gay Hawkins\u003cbr\u003e 6. Halos: Making More Room in the World for New Political Orders\u003cbr\u003e Nigel Thrift\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Political Technologies: Public (Dis)Orderings\u003cbr\u003e 7. Frontstaging Nonhumans: Publicity as a Constraint on the Political Activity of Things\u003cbr\u003e Noortje Marres\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Political Technology of RU486: Time for the Body and Democracy\u003cbr\u003e Rosalyn Diprose\u003cbr\u003e 9. Infrastructure and Event: The Political Technology of Preparedness\u003cbr\u003e Andrew Lakoff and Stephen J. Collier\u003cbr\u003e 10. \"\u003cbr\u003eFaitiche\"\u003cbr\u003e-izing the People: What Representative Democracy Might Learn from Science Studies\u003cbr\u003e Lisa Disch\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52695467819288,"sku":"9780816670895","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/political-matter-technoscience-democracy-and-public-life-paperback-softback-9780816670895","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}