Edible Matter

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Date
2007-05
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New Left Review
Abstract
Jane Bennett presents a case for seeing matter as actant inside and alongside humankind, able to exert influence on moods, dispositions, decisions. Might food in fact be seen as possessing a form of agency? Vitality and volition in motifs from Thoreau and Nietzsche, viewed through the prism of the biological and physical sciences.
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Human behavior, Power, Consumption, Exchange theory
Citation
Bennett, Jane. "Edible matter" New Left Review. 45 (2007 May/June): http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2674
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