Things with a history : transcultural materialism and the literatures of extraction in contemporary Latin American /
The 'New Materialism,' as developed by such thinkers and critics as Bruno Latour, Jane Bennett, Elizabeth Grosz and others, have provided new ways of thinking about the relationship of humans to the material world, the division of nature and culture and nonhuman agency. Despite the politic...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a tale of two materialisms
- Raw stuff disavowed
- Of rocks and particles
- Corpse narratives as literary history
- Politics and praxis of hyperfetishism
- Digitalia from the margins
- Conclusions : extractivism estranged.