Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life

by Isabelle Stengers, Sarah J. Whatmore, Andrew Barry, et al.

Taking seriously the argument that things have politics, Political Matter seeks to develop a fully materialist theory of politics, one that opens new possibilities for imagining the relationship between scientific and political practices. The contributors assert that without such a theory the profusion of complex materials with and through which we live-plastic bags, smart cars, and long-life lightbulbs, for example-too often leaves us oscillating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816670897
• ISBN13: 9780816670895
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.3"