Political matter : technoscience, democracy, and public life

Contents Acknowledgements The Stuff of Politics: An Introduction Bruce Braun and Sarah Whatmore Part I. Rematerializing Political Theory: Things Forcing Thought 1. Including Nonhumans in Political Theory: Opening Pandora's Box? Isabelle Stengers 2. Thing-Power Jane Bennett 3. Materiality, Experience, and Surveillance William E. Connolly Part II. Technological Politics: Affective Objects and Events 4. Materialist Politics: Metallurgy Andrew Barry 5. Plastic Materialities Gay Hawkins 6. Halos: Making More Room in the World for New Political Orders Nigel Thrift Part III. Political Technologies: Public (Dis)Orderings 7. Frontstaging Nonhumans: Publicity as a Constraint on the Political Activity of Things Noortje Marres 8. The Political Technology of RU486: Time for the Body and Democracy Rosalyn Diprose 9. Infrastructure and Event: The Political Technology of Preparedness Andrew Lakoff and Stephen J. Collier 10. Faitiche-izing the People: What Representative Democracy Might Learn from Science Studies Lisa Disch Contributors Index