Material Powers : Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn (Paperback)

Material Powers Introduction Patrick Joyce and Tony Bennett Part 1: A History of the Categories 1. Matter and Materialism: A Brief Prehistory of the Present John Frow 2. Locating Matter: The Place of Materiality in Urban History Chris Otter 3. The Matter of Materialism: Literary Mediations Bill Brown Part 2: Assembling the State 4. The Unintended State Chandra Mukerji 5. Filing the Raj: Political Technologies of the Imperial British State Patrick Joyce 6. Abstraction, Materiality and the ‘Science of the Concrete’ in Engineering Practice Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox Part 3: Colonial Materialities 7. Camerawork as Technical Practice in Colonial India Christopher Pinney 8.Exploring the Senses and Exploiting the Land : Railroads, Bodies and Measurement in Nineteenth-Century French Colonies Nelia Dias 9.Making and Mobilising Worlds: Assembling and Governing the Other Tony Bennett