Political matter : technoscience, democracy, and public life / / Bruce Braun and Sarah J. Whatmore, editors

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Disciplina: 320
• Soggetto topico: Materialism - Political aspects; Political science; Technology - Political aspects
• Classificazione: 08.45
• Altri autori: BraunBruce <1964-> WhatmoreSarah
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; The Stuff of Politics: An Introduction; Part I. Rematerializing Political Theory: Things Forcing Thought; 1. Including Nonhumans in Political Theory: Opening Pandora's Box?; 2. Thing-Power; 3. Materiality, Experience, and Surveillance; Part II. Technological Politics: Affective Objects and Events; 4. Materialist Politics: Metallurgy; 5. Plastic Materialities; 6. Halos: Making More Room in the World for New Political Orders; Part III. Political Technologies: Public (Dis)Orderings ; 7. Front-staging Nonhumans: Publicity as a Constraint on the Political Activity of Things8. The Political Technology of RU486: Time for the Body and Democracy; 9. Infrastructure and Event: The Political Technology of Preparedness; 10. Faitiche-izing the People: What Representative Democracy Might Learn from Science Studies; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: An engaging collection that explores the politics of material objects.
• Titolo autorizzato: Political matter
• ISBN: 0-8166-7495-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809273103321
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