Vibrant Matter

Touched on a lot (lively matter, assemblages, political ecology, ethics, etc.) but didn’t seem particularly substantial. Like a sampler or something.

I got more out of similar ideas from Mel Y. Chen’s Animacies or Alexis Shotwell’s Against Purity, or even Butler’s more recent works on precarity.

A fascinating and insightful book on how materialities constantly infect and affect human society and vice versa. Bennett convincingly argues how things have agencies and how the dividing lines between human-nonhuman and nature-culture are not tenable.