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Jun 27, 2012 - Rinne seems to suggest the possibility of a soundpoetic event in which spaces, bodies, texts, and times can assemble in surprising ways, and generate new and radical modes of negotiating language and meaning. With Karen Barad's idea of “entangled agencies”8 and Rasmus Fleischer's concept of “the postdigital”, I hope to demonstrate that Rinne's poetry undermines arborescent systems of generating meaning, and creates openings for a politics built on other premises. May 21, 2013 - Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 04:02. Sep 30, 2012 - The 2012 Conference takes place on 20-22 October at the London School of Economics. May 16, 2014 - These richer social ontological approaches – highlighted in the rise of assemblage theory, new materialism and post-humanism – tend to work on the basis of 'flat' or 'bottom-up' ontologies of interconnection (DeLanda, 2006, p. May 30, 2013 - While Taylor rightly pointed out the need for us to give fuller attention to, and schematize, social antagonisms as an integral part of our radical political theology, West took the occasion to identify our new materialism as a new species of liberation theology, one that Smith identifies our book as a 'synthetic manifesto,' and admits to a certain excitement in our attempt to think things such as social media, art, religion and politics together with energy and ontology. Practice, London: Routledge, 2007. Jul 22, 2013 - From a political standpoint, of course, I think we can see why this is such a matter of concern as it is a form of genetic determinism. I see something similar at work in the focus on text and . It seems that when we talk about materiality in the disciplines you mention, as in the new materialism which addresses the ontology of matter, we're not usually chasing the most basic sense of what matter might mean in physics.