The Government of Things: Foucault and the New Materialisms
- ISBN-10
- 1479808814
- ISBN-13
- 9781479808816
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-09-28
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Author
- Thomas Lemke
Description
"Critically engaging with some limitations of new materialist scholarship, Lemke draws on Foucault's concept of a "government of things" to propose a relational understanding of political ontologies"--
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