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Response to Sara Ahmed's 'Imaginary Prohibitions: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Founding Gestures of the "New Materialism" '
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The article was published on 2008-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 55 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Materialism & The Imaginary.read more
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New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies
Rick Dolphijn,Iris van der Tuin +1 more
TL;DR: New materialism is an emerging trend in 21st century thought that has already left its mark in such fields as philosophy, cultural theory, feminism, science studies, and the arts as mentioned in this paper.
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The Transversality of New Materialism
Iris van der Tuin,Rick Dolphijn +1 more
TL;DR: New materialism is a cultural theory that does not privilege culture, but focuses on what Haraway would call "naturecultures" as discussed by the authors and explores a monist perspective of the human being, disposed of the dualisms that have dominated the humanities until today.
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The somatechnics of perception and the matter of the non/human: A critical response to the new materialism
TL;DR: The authors confronted the often repeated claim that feminists and/or social constructionists often ignore the body and pointed out that even those whose work appears to focus on 'the body' often ignore 'the mind' as well.
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New feminist materialisms
TL;DR: In this paper, a review essay discusses and contextualizes four recent publications in and on "new feminist materialism" and explores the theoretical tools that scholars from diverse (inter)disciplinary fields, continents and generations have developed for dealing with agential matter rather than (gendered) passive matter.
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Narrative and Human Existence: Ontology, Epistemology, and Ethics
TL;DR: This article argued that both experience and narrative are phenomena constituted by interpretative activity, and that narrative interpretations of experiences have a constitutive role in our existence, while epistemological and ontological assumptions concerning what is counted as real are implicit assumptions concerning all three dimensions.
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Open Forum Imaginary Prohibitions: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Founding Gestures of the `New Materialism'
TL;DR: The body in question is pursued in its socially, experientially, or psychically constituted forms, but rarely in its physiologically, biochemically, or microbiologically constituted form, the idea of biological construction having been rendered either unintelligible or naive as mentioned in this paper.
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A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory
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