Experimental practice : technoscience, alterontologies, and more-than-social movements

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Experimental practice : technoscience, alterontologies, and more-than-social movements

Dimitris Papadopoulos

(Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices)

Duke University Press, 2018

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-321) and index

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In Experimental Practice Dimitris Papadopoulos explores the potential for building new forms of political and social movements through the reconfiguration of the material conditions of existence. Rather than targeting existing institutions in demands for social justice, Papadopoulos calls for the creation of alternative ontologies of everyday life that would transform the meanings of politics and justice. Inextricably linked to technoscience, these "alterontologies"-which Papadopoulos examines in a variety of contexts, from AIDS activism and the financialization of life to hacker communities and neuroscience-form the basis of ways of life that would embrace the more-than-social interdependence of the human and nonhuman worlds. Speaking to a matrix of concerns about politics and justice, social movements, matter and ontology, everyday practice, technoscience, the production of knowledge, and the human and nonhuman, Papadopoulos suggests that the development of alterontologies would create more efficacious political and social organizing.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 1. Decolonial Politics of Matter 11 Part I. Movements 2. Biofinancialization as Terraformation 27 3. Ontological Organizing 49 Part II. History Remix 4. Activist Materialism 79 5. Insurgent Posthumanism 94 Part III. Alterontologies 6. Brain Matter 117 7. Compositional Technoscience 138 8. Crafting Ontologies 160 Acknowledgments 209 Notes 211 References 257 Index 323

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