... with which the majority of literary critics are most familiar, Kornbluh plots the coordinates of a Žižekian literary materialism that attends not only to the confluence of different levels of the Symbolic within literary works but also, and most crucially, to the non-sensical, traumatic kernels of the Real...

...” of the recently popular “new materialisms” and broadens Latour’s European “we,” modeling transcultural materialism in the center of Paris. George Catlin Bruno Latour new materialisms smallpox performance ...

...Theological Materialism ...

... 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...