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Guests in the Out-Side : Becoming, Knowing, and Acting in Jane Bennett’s Vital Materialism Vartabedian, Becky 2021 Philosophy in the Contemporary World , Vol. 27 , Issue 1 , S. 20 ff. ( Zeitschrift ) Englisch 1077-1999 | 2153-3377 10.5840/pcw20212712 Abstract
Jane Bennett’s vital materialism develops positive ontological commitments to lively matter and resistant vitality, articulated using notions of actant and assemblage, thing-power and the out-side. I show that these ontological commitments reveal a limit for traditional modes of human knowing, favoring an emergent epistemology that attends to the ways actants and assemblages express themselves. I then argue for an account of acting that positions humans as guests of vibrant matter. Compacts of guest-friendship in Plato’s Crito and Kant’s To Perpetual Peace indicate that to be a guest is to be embedded in an asymmetrical system. The compact that binds the guest in a world of vibrant matter is the prospect of friendship with nonhuman others, a prospect I discuss following the work of Nick Bingham. I conclude by addressing Axelle Karera’s recent critique of Anthropocenean discourses, explaining the role guest-friendship can play in addressing certain of the weaknesses Karera identifies.
SchlagwörterApplied Philosophy | Contemporary Philosophy
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