Experimental Practice: Technoscience, Alterontologies, and More-Than-Social Movements

Dimitris Papadopoulos

Published by Duke University Press 2018

Experimental Practice

Technoscience, Alterontologies, and More-Than-Social Movements

Dimitris Papadopoulos

In the series Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478002321

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About this book

Dimitris Papadopoulos explores the potential for building new forms of political and social movements through the reconfiguration of the material conditions of existence.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

"Offering a mix of keen insights . . . Experimental Practice is a book that will be valuable to academics who share the author's questions and frame of reference."

-- DJ Mattingly Choice

"Excellent. . . . Experimental Futures pulls together in endlessly inspiring fashion many concepts and ideas that have been to the forefront of engaged scholarship in geography."

-- Patrick Bresnihan Antipode

"Experimental Practice is a thorough and practical account of how matter matters, and how we can bring the non-human or more-than-human world into our political calculus and convincingly sets out a case for experimental practices."

-- Nicholas Beuret Sociological Review

"The range of case studies that is presented – from AIDS activism, to HSBC advertising campaigns, to the Struggle for Calais – helps to ground Papadopoulos’s theoretical arguments, and to moderate some of the creative licence that comes from his writing of ‘social science fiction.' . . . Consistently and provocatively argues for a reimagination of socio-political organisation and justice in/and the world."

-- Orlando Woods Social & Cultural Geography

"Experimental Practice takes a step forward in challenging the 'social' in Social Movement Studies by exploring the long ignored post-human entanglements of social movements. This original lens provides an important insight for scholars concerned with emancipatory struggles by foregrounding the interdependence of social-movements with their environment, and thus reconceptualizing political autonomy as the ability to remain open and to engage in transformative connections with a multiplicity of human and non-human actors."

-- Álvaro Ramírez March Social Movement Studies

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
01. DECOLONIAL POLITICS OF MATTER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
PART I: MOVEMENTS
02. BIOFINANCIALIZATION AS TERRAFORMATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
03. ONTOLOGICAL ORGANIZING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
04. ACTIVIST MATERIALISM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
05. INSURGENT POSTHUMANISM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
PART III: ALTERONTOLOGIES
06. BRAIN MATTER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
07. COMPOSITIONAL TECHNOSCIENCE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
08. CRAFTING ONTOLOGIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
REFERENCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 344
Illustrations
- Other: 26 illustrations

eBook

Published: July 16, 2018
ISBN: 9781478002321