The Materialism of Historical Materialism

Abstract

Introducing the new materialisms / Diana Coole and Samantha Frost -- The force of materiality: a vitalist stopover on the way to a new materialism / Jane Bennett -- Nondialectical materialism / Pheng Cheah -- The inertia of matter and the generativity of flesh / Diana Coole -- Impersonal matter / Melissa A. Orlie -- Political matters: feminism, materialism, and freedom / Elizabeth Grosz -- Fear and the illusion of autonomy / Samantha Frost -- Materialities of experience / William E. Connolly -- The politics of "life itself" and new ways of dying / Rosi Braidotti -- Economies of disruption: the elusive material: what the dog doesn't understand / Rey Chow -- Orientations matter / Sara Ahmed -- Simone de Beauvoir: engaging discrepant materialisms / Sonia Kruks -- The materialism of historical materialism / Jason Edwards.