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The government of things : Foucault and the new materialisms / Thomas Lemke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lemke, Thomas, author.
- Series:
- NYU scholarship online.
- NYU scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Political and social views.
- Foucault, Michel.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Materialism, a rich philosophical tradition that goes back to antiquity, is currently undergoing a Renaissance. In 'The Government of Things,' Thomas Lemke provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of this 'new materialism'. In analyzing the work of Graham Harman, Jane Bennett, and Karen Barad, Lemke articulates what, exactly, new materialism is and how it has evolved. These insights open up new spaces for critical thought and political experimentation, overcoming the limits of anthropocentrism. Drawing on Michel Foucault's concept of a 'government of things', the book also goes beyond new materialist scholarship which tends to displace political questions by ethical and aesthetic concerns. It puts forward a relational and performative account of materialities that more closely attends to the interplay of epistemological, ontological, and political issues.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I : varieties of materialism
- Immaterialism : Graham Harman and the weirdness of objects
- Vital materialism : Jane Bennett and the vibrancy of things
- Diffractive materialism : Karen Barad and the performativity of phenomena
- Part II : elements of a more-than-human analytics of government
- Material-discursive entanglements : grasping the concept of the dispositive
- More-than-social configurations : expanding the understanding of technology
- Beyond anthropocentric framings : circulating the Idea of the Milieu
- Part III : toward a relational materialism
- Aligning science and technology studies and an analytics of government
- Environmentality : mapping contemporary political topographies
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4798-9071-5
- OCLC:
- 1265464314
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