Political Matter : Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life.
by
 
Braun, Bruce.

Title
Political Matter : Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life.

Author
Braun, Bruce.

ISBN
9780816674954

Personal Author
Braun, Bruce.

Physical Description
1 online resource (360 pages)

Contents
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Stuff of Politics: An Introduction -- Part I. Rematerializing Political Theory: Things Forcing Thought -- 1. Including Nonhumans in Political Theory: Opening Pandora's Box? -- 2. Thing-Power -- 3. Materiality, Experience, and Surveillance -- Part II. Technological Politics: Affective Objects and Events -- 4. Materialist Politics: Metallurgy -- 5. Plastic Materialities -- 6. Halos: Making More Room in the World for New Political Orders -- Part III. Political Technologies: Public (Dis)Orderings -- 7. Front-staging Nonhumans: Publicity as a Constraint on the Political Activity of Things -- 8. The Political Technology of RU486: Time for the Body and Democracy -- 9. Infrastructure and Event: The Political Technology of Preparedness -- 10. Faitiche-izing the People: What Representative Democracy Might Learn from Science Studies -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

Abstract
An engaging collection that explores the politics of material objects.

Local Note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term
Electronic books. -- local.
 
Materialism -- Political aspects.
 
Political science.
 
Technology -- Political aspects.

Genre
Electronic books.

Added Author
Whatmore, Sarah J.
 
Stengers, Isabelle.

Electronic Access
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LibraryMaterial TypeItem BarcodeShelf NumberStatus
IYTE LibraryE-Book1222953-1001JA80 -- .P63 2010 EBEbrary E-Books