Cover image for Political Matter : Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life.
Political Matter : Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life.
Title:
Political Matter : Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life.
Author:
Braun, Bruce.
ISBN:
9780816674954
Personal Author:
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.
Electronic Access:
Click to View
Holds: Copies: