Liberation for Straw Dogs? Old Materialism, New Materialism, and the Challenge of an Emancipatory Posthumanism

Globalizations

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 134-148

  Cudworth, Erika ^a   Hobden, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

complex systems; emancipation; new materialism; posthumanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918812054     PISSN: 14747731     EISSN: 1474774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2014.971634     Document Type: Article

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