Böcker av Jane Bennett

Theorizes the political agency of things and natural phenomena-such as trash, food, weather, and electricity-to examine how non-human elements exert force on human politics and social relations.

The microwave is a convenience appliance that almost everyone has in their home, including hotel rooms and college dorms. But the meals that can be made in the microwave do not have to be limited to heating water and cooking prepared processed foods. ¿There are lots and lots of delicious microwave meals that can be prepared in a fraction of the time that it takes in a conventional oven. This cookbook explores many of the scrumptious, mouth watering recipes that are quick and easy to prepare in the microwave.

Exploring the question of human agency amidst a world teeming with powerful nonhuman influences, Jane Bennett draws upon Whitman, Thoreau, Caillois, Whitehead, and other poetic writers to link a non-anthropocentric model of self to a democratic pluralism and a syntax and style of writing appropriate to the entangled world in which we live.

Thoreau's encounters with nature, the author argues, allowed him to resist his all-too-human tendency toward intellectual laziness, social conformity and political complacency. Bennett pursues this theme by constructing a series of dialogues between Thoureau and modern contemporaries.