Jane Bennett, professor of political theory and chair of the Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University.
“Anxiety, Whitman, Sympathy”
Delivered on October 2, 2014, Binghamton University.
Bennett is the author of, among other books, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Duke University Press, 2010). She is renowned for her work on nature, ethics and affect; her more recent work shifts from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a “vital materiality” that runs through and across bodies, both human and nonhuman.
MVW Binghamton
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