What if Culture was Nature all Along? / / Vicki Kirby.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Kirby, Vicki,
• MitwirkendeR: Barnwell, Ashley,; Chiew, Florence,; Dalziell, Jacqueline,; Davis, Noela,; Hinton, Peta,; Jamieson, Michelle,; Johncock, Will,; Kirby, Vicki,; Liu, Xin,; Neimanis, Astrida,; Oxley, Rebecca,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: New Materialisms : NEMA
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Gives you the tools to navigate towards a non-reductionist naturalism where matter is chameleon and agentialNew materialisms argue for a more science friendly humanities, ventilating questions about methodology and subject matter and the importance of the non-human. However, these new sites of attention - climate, biology, affect, geology, animals and objects - tend to leverage their difference against language and the discursive. Similarly, questions about ontology have come to eclipse, and even eschew, those of epistemology.While this collection of essays is in kinship with this radical shake-up of how and what we study, the aim is to re-navigate what constitutes materiality. These efforts are encapsulated by a rewriting of the Derridean axiom, 'there is no outside text' as 'there is no outside nature.' What if nature has always been literate, numerate, social? And what happens to 'the human' if its exceptional identity and status is conceded quantum, non-local and ecological implication?"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Matter out of Place: 'New Materialism' in Review -- 2 Method Matters: The Ethics of Exclusion -- 3 Sensory Substitution: The Plasticity of the Eye/I -- 4 Allergy as the Puzzle of Causality -- 5 Pregnant Men: Paternal Postnatal Depression and a Culture of Hormones -- 6 Material Culture: Epigenetics and the Molecularisation of the Social -- 7 Racialised Visual Encounters -- 8 Microbiology as Sociology: The Strange Sociality of Slime -- 9 Nature Represents Itself: Bibliophilia in a Changing Climate -- 10 Climate Change, Socially Synchronised: Are We Really Running out of Time? -- 11 A Sociality of Death: Towards a New Materialist Politics and Ethics of Life Itself -- Notes on Contributors -- Index