Jane Bennett's trash site as assemblage
example · new materialism/Jane Bennett ·
retold in 3 talks
In Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett describes a trash site as a living process of interacting actants, rotting trash, worms, insects, abandoned machines, chemical poisons, each playing an active role; Žižek credits the insight while exposing its hidden anthropocentrism.
As told 2
“a complex interaction of rotting trash, worms, insects, abandoned machines, chemical poisons and each plays each element actant plays its own never purely passive role.”
“what appears as just from our human perspective a trash site, dirty and so on, becomes a living organism where many actors... are actants”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Erich Fromm1Saint Maximus the Confessor1Saint Athanasius of Alexandria1Jo Nesbø1Jane Bennett2Melania Trump1Claude Lanzmann2Will Self1
alongside works
Every retelling 2
In Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett describes a trash site as a living process of interacting actants, rotting trash, worms, insects, abandoned machines, chemical poisons, each playing an active role; Žižek credits the insight while exposing its hidden anthropocentrism., illustrating assemblage,inhuman gaze,anthropocentrism in new materialism
Bennett describes a trash site as a living organism involving humans, organic matter, worms, insects, abandoned machines, and chemical poisons, all actants in an assemblage without privileged human perspective., illustrating assemblage,new materialism,inhuman view