Vibrant matter

'A guiding question: How would political responses to public problems change were we to take seriously the vitality of (nonhuman) bodies? By "vitality" I mean the capacity of things - edibles, commodities, storms, metals - not only to impede or block the will and designs of humans, but to act as quasi agents or forces with trajectories, propensities, or tendencies of their own. My aspiration is to develop a vibrant materiality that runs alongside and inside humans to see how analyses of political events might change if we gave the force of things more due.'

BENNETT, J. (2010). Vibrant matter: a political ecology of things. Durham, Duke University Press.