Activist materialism

Papadopoulos, Dimitrios 2010. Activist materialism. Deleuze Studies 4 , pp. 64-83. 10.3366/dls.2010.0206

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This paper explores a form of activism that operates with and within matter. For more than 150 years materialism has informed activist practice through materialist conceptions of history and modes of production. The paper discusses the ambivalences of these previous configurations of activism and materialism and explores possibilities for enacting activist interventions in conditions where politics is not only performed as a politics of history but as the fundamental capacity to remake and transform processes of matter and life. What is activism when politics is increasingly performed as a politics of matter? What is activism when it comes to a materialist understanding of matter itself?

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	activism; materialism; matter; Marx; minor science; technoscience
Additional Information:	Pdf uploaded in accordance with publisher's policy at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1750-2241/ (accessed 20/02/2014).
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
ISSN:	1750-2241
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 11:42
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/28120

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