Non-Representational Theory: Space | politics | affect

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Non-Representational Theory Non-Representational Theorypresents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging ...

International Library of Sociology Founded by Karl Mannheim Editor: John Urry Lancaster University Recent publications in this s ...

Non-Representational Theory Space | politics | affect Nigel Thrift ...

First published 2008 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and C ...

Contents Preface vii Acknowledgements ix 1 Life, but not as we know it 1 PART I 27 2 Re-inventing invention: new tendencies in c ...

Notes 255 Bibliography 279 Index 314 vi Contents ...

Preface This book summarizes and extends a batch of work carried out since the late 1990s concerned with what I call non-represe ...

to make progress in reworking the background by producing new and more productive entanglements. The intent is to produce a poli ...

Acknowledgements One of the banal but still important principles of non-representational theory is that all work is joint: the i ...

Chapter 5: first published in 2005 in Economy and Society(reproduced courtesy of Routledge) PART II Chapter 6: first published i ...

1 Life, but not as we know it When it was enthusiastically pointed out within memory of our present Academy that race or gender ...

How to characterize this particular book’s contents, then? Stripped to its bare essentials, this is a book about the geography o ...

one, is an opening up of new political domains which it is then possible to make a corresponding political rumpus about. The boo ...

not be permanent solutions. Rather, they would be oriented to escape attempts, some of which would take root: a series of firewo ...

answering this quest/question about questioning is precisely what the rest of this book attempts to do. In the remaining pages o ...

Humean models of empiricism, I find them too austere. I prefer the lineage of inter-relation that runs from James through Whiteh ...

technologies for more thinking to be constructed. But, at the same time, the logical corollary of these thoughts is that we shou ...

endlessly redescribed. Biography did to the dead what Freud feared that psycho- analysis might do to the living’. Instead I want ...

hollowed out but may still retain a presence as enigmatic signifiers (Santner 2006). Or they may find new uses in other networks ...