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Materialism and Politics

Edited by
Bernardo Bianchi
Emilie Filion-Donato
Marlon Miguel
Ayşe Yuva

Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021

Cover Materialism and Politics — Cover design: Studio Bens

Is materialism still relevant to critically think politics? Throughout modernity, the concept of materialism was associated with fatalism and naturalism, when it was not simply dismissed as heresy and atheism. In the nineteenth century, materialism evolved into a central concept of progressive politics, reappearing again in the past decades through renewed Marxist and Spinoza-based approaches, New Materialism, and feminist discourses. This volume inquires these contrasting uses from theoretical and historical perspectives.

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Cultural Inquiry, 20
ISSN (Print): 2627-728X
ISSN (Online): 2627-731X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-20

Contents

Acknowledgments

From ‘Materialism’ towards ‘Materialities’The Editors1-18

I. The Actuality of Spinoza’s Materialism

Introduction to Part iStefan Hagemann21-23

Materialist Variations on Spinoza: Theoretical Alliances and Political StrategiesMariana de Gainza25-37

Non Defuit Materia: Freedom and Necessity in Spinoza’s Democratic TheoryStefano Visentin39-54

Temporality and History in Spinoza: The Refusal of Teleological ThoughtEricka Marie Itokazu55-72

Spinozist Moments in Deleuze: Materialism as ImmanenceMauricio Rocha73-90

Are there One or Two Aleatory Materialisms?Vittorio Morfino91-106

II. The Materiality of the Milieu and the Materialist Education

Introduction to Part iiMarlene Kienberger and Bruno Pace109-112

Language Follows Labour: Nikolai Marr’s Materialist Palaeontology of SpeechElena Vogman113-132

Materialism and Capitalism Today: Zoo-aesthetics and a Critique of the Social Bond after Marcel Mauss and André Leroi-GourhanCatherine Perret133-144

The Product of Circumstances: Towards a Materialist and Situated PedagogyMarlon Miguel145-162

In the Labyrinth of Emancipation: An Inquiry into the Relationship between Knowledge and Politics Bernardo Bianchi163-180

A Materialist Education: Thinking with SpinozaPascal Sévérac181-196

III. Critical Materialities in Feminism and New Materialism

Introduction to Part iiiAlison Sperling199-202

Materialism, Matter, Matrix, and Mater: Contesting Notions in Feminist and Gender StudiesCornelia Möser203-214

Anarchafeminism & the Ontology of the TransindividualChiara Bottici215-231

Psychodynamism of Individuation and New Materialism: Possible EncountersÉmilie Filion-Donato233-252

Emergence that Matters and Emergent Irrelevance: On the Political Use of Fundamental PhysicsChristoph F. E. Holzhey253-268

IV. Towards a Renewed Historical Materialism

Introduction to Part ivDaniel Liu271-276

Materialism against Materialism: Taking up Marx’s Break with ReductionismFrieder Otto Wolf277-292

Materialism, Politics, and the History of Philosophy: French, German, and Turkish Materialist Authors in the Nineteenth CenturyAyşe Yuva293-312

The Historicity of Materialism and the Critique of PoliticsAlex Demirović313-326

On Populist Illusion: Impasses of Political Ontology, or How the Ordinary MattersFacundo Vega327-343

Theory’s Method? Ethnography and Critical TheoryMarianna Poyares345-363

Notes on the Contributors

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