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Émilie Filion-Donato
Psychodynamism of Individuation and New Materialism
Possible Encounters
In this chapter, I explore the possible benefits of combining an analysis of the psychodynamism of individuation with New Materialism. I contend that concepts such as dynamic objectivity and autonomy can help us to understand the specificity of human agential cuts proposed by New Materialism. This, in turn, opens up possible answers to ethical difficulties left entangled by New Materialism’s posthumanist approach to ethico-onto-epistem-ology.
Keywords: new materialism; psychodynamism of individuation; epistemology; feminism; ontology; ethics; situation (philosophy); Fox-Keller, Evelyn; Barad, Karen
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Psychodynamism of Individuation and New Materialism
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Possible Encounters
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Émilie Filion-Donato
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In this chapter, I explore the possible benefits of combining an analysis of the psychodynamism of individuation with New Materialism. I contend that concepts such as dynamic objectivity and autonomy can help us to understand the specificity of human agential cuts proposed by New Materialism. This, in turn, opens up possible answers to ethical difficulties left entangled by New Materialism’s posthumanist approach to ethico-onto-epistem-ology.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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2 March 2021
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new materialism
psychodynamism of individuation
epistemology
feminism
ontology
ethics
situation (philosophy)
Fox-Keller, Evelyn
Barad, Karen
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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233
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252
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Materialism and Politics, ed. by Bernardo Bianchi, Emilie Filion-Donato, Marlon Miguel, and Ayşe Yuva, Cultural Inquiry, 20 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021), pp. 233–52
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Cite as:
Émilie Filion-Donato, ‘Psychodynamism of Individuation and New Materialism: Possible Encounters’, in Materialism and Politics, ed. by Bernardo Bianchi, Emilie Filion-Donato, Marlon Miguel, and Ayşe Yuva, Cultural Inquiry, 20 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021), pp. 233-52 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-20_13>