How Vital is Nature? Animated Bodies and Agency in Contemporary Capitalism

This paper brings into conversation two ontologies that depart from the anthropocentric norm: new materialism, represented here by the US vitalist philosopher Jane Bennett, and the animated cosmology common among Indigenous peoples, as an example of which I take Braiding Sweetgrass by the Potawatomi...

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Main Author: Gareth Dale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cultural Studies Association 2024-12-01
Series:Lateral
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Online Access:https://csalateral.org/section/political-economy-and-the-arts/how-vital-is-nature-animated-bodies-agency-contemporary-capitalism-dale/
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