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In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political life, materials has become incr

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In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things

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