Brenna Bhandar is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, SOAS, at the University of London.
Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i. He is the author of
Brenna Bhandar is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, SOAS, at the University of London.
Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i. He is the author of
Whither Materialism? Althusser/Darwin Available to Purchase
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Published:March 2015
Catherine Malabou, 2015. "Whither Materialism? Althusser/Darwin", Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou, Brenna Bhandar, Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
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This chapter explores the philosophical possibilities of another materialism, one that is contingent or aleatory, and glimpsed in the philosophy of Althusser and the biology of Darwin. Might this become the grounds for a new politics? Rather than the conservative force of social Darwinism and sociobiology, two uses of the biological that see the function of social selection as the reproduction of order, this chapter advocates a new balance between variation and selection that is uncovered by a plastic reading of this new materialism.
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