In <I>influx & efflux</I> Jane Bennett pursues a question that was bracketed in her book <I>Vibrant Matter</I>: how to think about human agency in a world teeming with powerful nonhuman influences? “Influx <I>& </I>efflux”—a phrase borrowed from Whitman''s "Song of Myself"—refers to everyday movements whereby outside influences enter bodies, infuse and confuse their organization, and then exit, themselves having been transformed into something new. How to describe the human efforts involved in that process? What kinds of “I” and “we” can live well and act effectively in a world of so many other lively materialities? Drawing upon Whitman, Thoreau, Caillois, Whitehead, and other poetic writers, Bennett links a nonanthropocentric model of self to a radically egalitarian pluralism and also to a syntax and style of writing appropriate to the entangled world in which we live. The book tries to enact the uncanny process by whic
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Den amerikanske filosofen Jane Bennetts banebrytende bok åpner opp spørsmålet om en politisk materialisme fra en helt annen kant enn den marxistiske. Ved å undersøke materiens egen virkekraft utfordrer hun grensene for hva og hvem som kan regnes...
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<p>It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only...
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First-hand account of life in the Falklands during the Argentine occupation.
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