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K. Barad 2003, “Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Mat-
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The notion of intra-activity used here is borrowed from Karen Barad’s conception of
agential realism, according to which performativity is linked to the formation of the
subject and simultaneously to the production of the matter of bodies. Barad expands
Foucault’s understanding of the productivity of power for the purpose of incorporat-
ing “important material and discursive, social and scientific, human and non-human,
and natural and cultural factors.” Ibid., 811.
This book subscribes to the proposed beginning of the Anthropocene in the 1950s as
evidenced by the appearance of radioactive elements dispersed across the planet
(Anthropocene Working Group, https: //theanthropocene .org /topics /anthropocene
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T. Morton 2016, Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (New York: Columbia
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D. J. Haraway 2008, When Species Meet (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), 41.
G. Harman 2011a, Heidegger Explained: From Phenomenology to Thing (Chicago: Open
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A. Appadurai, ed. 1988, The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
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B. Brown 2001, “Thing Theory,” Critical Inquiry 28, no. 1: 1–22.
Harman 2011b:63.
Ibid., 5.
T. Lemke 2015, “New Materialisms: Foucault and the ‘Government of Things,’ ”
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D. Coole and S. Frost 2010, “Introducing the New Materialism,” in D. Coole and
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Ibid., 9.
Ibid., 23.
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D. J. Haraway 2004, “The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for
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