Experimental Practice

Technoscience, Alterontologies, and More-Than-Social Movements

Dimitris Papadopoulos (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

344 Seiten

2018
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0084-6 (ISBN)

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In Experimental Practice Dimitris Papadopoulos explores the potential for building new forms of political and social movements through the reconfiguration of the material conditions of existence. Rather than targeting existing institutions in demands for social justice, Papadopoulos calls for the creation of alternative ontologies of everyday life that would transform the meanings of politics and justice. Inextricably linked to technoscience, these “alterontologies”—which Papadopoulos examines in a variety of contexts, from AIDS activism and the financialization of life to hacker communities and neuroscience—form the basis of ways of life that would embrace the more-than-social interdependence of the human and nonhuman worlds. Speaking to a matrix of concerns about politics and justice, social movements, matter and ontology, everyday practice, technoscience, the production of knowledge, and the human and nonhuman, Papadopoulos suggests that the development of alterontologies would create more efficacious political and social organizing.

Dimitris Papadopoulos is Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Nottingham and coauthor of Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the Twenty-First Century and Analysing Everyday Experience: Social Research and Political Change.

Introduction 1
1. Decolonial Politics of Matter 11
Part I. Movements
2. Biofinancialization as Terraformation 27
3. Ontological Organizing 49
Part II. History Remix
4. Activist Materialism 79
5. Insurgent Posthumanism 94
Part III. Alterontologies
6. Brain Matter 117
7. Compositional Technoscience 138
8. Crafting Ontologies 160
Acknowledgments 209
Notes 211
References 257
Index 323

Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2018
Reihe/Serie	Experimental Futures
Zusatzinfo	26 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-0084-8 / 1478000848
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0084-6 / 9781478000846
Zustand	Neuware