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Experimental Practice : Technoscience, Alterontologies, and More-Than-Social Movements - Dimitris Papadopoulos

Experimental Practice

Technoscience, Alterontologies, and More-Than-Social Movements

By: Dimitris Papadopoulos

Paperback | 3 August 2018

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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.

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"Offering a mix of keen insights . . . Experimental Practice is a book that will be valuable to academics who share the author's questions and frame of reference." -- DJ Mattingly * Choice *
"Excellent. . . . Experimental Futures pulls together in endlessly inspiring fashion many concepts and ideas that have been to the forefront of engaged scholarship in geography." -- Patrick Bresnihan * Antipode *
"Experimental Practice is a thorough and practical account of how matter matters, and how we can bring the non-human or more-than-human world into our political calculus and convincingly sets out a case for experimental practices." -- Nicholas Beuret * Sociological Review *
"The range of case studies that is presented - from AIDS activism, to HSBC advertising campaigns, to the Struggle for Calais - helps to ground Papadopoulos's theoretical arguments, and to moderate some of the creative licence that comes from his writing of 'social science fiction.' . . . Consistently and provocatively argues for a reimagination of socio-political organisation and justice in/and the world." -- Orlando Woods * Social & Cultural Geography *
"Experimental Practice takes a step forward in challenging the 'social' in Social Movement Studies by exploring the long ignored post-human entanglements of social movements. This original lens provides an important insight for scholars concerned with emancipatory struggles by foregrounding the interdependence of social-movements with their environment, and thus reconceptualizing political autonomy as the ability to remain open and to engage in transformative connections with a multiplicity of human and non-human actors." -- Alvaro Ramirez March * Social Movement Studies *

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