This collection, which includes an international roster of contributors from philosophy, history, literature, and science, is the first to ask what is "new" abo

New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humani

"Following Vattimo's postmodern philosophy, Badiou's postmetaphysical ontology, and i ek's revolutionary style, the authors of this marvelous book invites us to

New materialism challenges the mechanistic models characteristic of early modern philosophy that regarded matter as largely passive and inert. Instead it gives

"Critically engaging with some limitations of new materialist scholarship, Lemke draws on Foucault's concept of a "government of things" to propose a relational