New Materialist Tangles in and for the Anthropocene

Edited by Anna Grear, Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Waikato, New Zealand and Dorothy Kwek, Cardiff University, UK

• ContentsNew materialist reflections for the AnthropoceneAnna Grear and Dorothy Kwek 1ArticlesEco-social new-materialist reflections for the AnthropoceneJane Bennett, William E Connolly, Dorothy Kwek and Anna Grear 15Acting amidst: some concepts and practicesJane Bennett 25The Anthropocene as abstract machineWilliam E Connolly 35‘Acting amidst’ – a conversation with Jane Bennett, facilitated by Anna GrearAnna Grear, Jane Bennett et al. 46The Anthropocene as abstract machine – a conversationWilliam E Connolly et al. 63An other timeElizabeth R Johnson 72Vital materialism from social theory to sociological lines of flightNick J Fox 80Drifting bodies, monstrous forms, cosmic meanings: a new materialistgeography of Hong Kong’s sandy groundsJulian Brigstocke 98Discontinuity and the underground: permafrost imaginaries andsubterranean worldsCharlotte Wrigley 121InfluencerEmily Jones 134On gardens of the Anthropocene: gendered violence, colonial legalenclosures, and feminist posthuman kinshipMatilda Arvidsson 136On doodling and other modes of engagement in meltdownSian Sullivan 167