Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (A John Hope Franklin Center Book)

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Bennett, Jane (2002), "The Moraline Drift", in Bennett, Jane; Shapiro, Michael J. (eds.), The Politics of Moralizing, New York: Routledge, pp.11–26, ISBN 9780415934787 Bennett, Jane (18 August 2010). "On the call from outside". The Immanent Frame. Social Science Research Council. Bennett, Jane (2010), "A vitalist stopover on the way to a new materialism", in Coole, Diana; Frost, Samantha (eds.), New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, Durham North Carolina London: Duke University Press, pp.47–69, ISBN 9780822347729 Bennett, Jane (2020). Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-1478007791.

Bennett, Jane; Chaloupka, William (1993). In the Nature of Things: Language, Politics, and the Environment. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816623082. JB: What I tried to do in the book is to take “things” very seriously. This is a project that a group of object-oriented philosophers or “speculative realists” (Graham Harman, Ray Brassier, Ian Hamilton Grant, Quentin Meillassoux, Timothy Morton and others) were also pursuing independently and whose work I am currently exploring. By “things” I mean the ordinary stuff around us that we possess and use, and are possessed and used by. Vibrant Matter will reward readers by opening many fields of inquiry that require responses. The reconceptualization of the material world that Vibrant Matter represents is a meaningful step in the direction of reformulating many of the debates within environmental philosophy that continue to retain the vestiges of overt dualism and its less obvious manifestation in the subject-object distinction.” — Bryan E. Bannon, Environmental Philosophy Adorno, T. (1990) Negative Dialectics. Translated by E.B. Ashton. (Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd: London).I read this book because its title seems to have become a catchphrase in articles that a couple of our bright-eyed young grad students keep sending me. So I’m late to the new-materialist party, but this book makes me feel that i didn’t miss much. Bennett, Jane; Connolly, William (2013), "Earthling: Now and Forever?", in Ellsworth, Elizabeth; Kruse, Jaime (eds.), Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life, Brooklyn, New York: Punctum Books, pp.244–246, ISBN 9780615766362

Bennett, Jane (2010). Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822346197.

Bennett's book is small and suggestive, like her earlier one. The early parts of the argument are differently structured, though, weighted heavily toward example, rather than the development of ideas. When she does come to these later on, the argument tends to be suggestive rather than clear.