New Empiricisms and New Materialisms: Conditions for New Inquiry. (April 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: St. Pierre, Elizabeth A.; Jackson, Alecia Y.; Mazzei, Lisa A.
• Other Names: St.Pierre Elizabeth A. guest-editor.; Mazzei Lisa A. guest-editor.; Jackson Alecia Y. guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Cultural studies, critical methodologies. Volume 16:Number 2(2016:Apr.)
• Page Start: 99
• Page End: 110
• Publication Date: 2016-04
• Subjects: new empiricism -- new materialism -- ontology -- empiricism -- materialism -- Deleuze and Guattari; Culture -- Research -- Periodicals; Popular culture -- Research -- Periodicals; 306.05
• DOI: 10.1177/1532708616638694
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1532-7086

Abstract

This article, which introduces this special issue on new empiricisms and new materialisms, focuses on two of the many conditions that enable this new work: first, an ethical imperative to rethink the nature of being to refuse the devastating dividing practices of the dogmatic Cartesian image of thought and, second, a heightened curiosity and accompanying experimentation in the becoming of existence. The article includes a brief description of how matter matters differently in this new work, of Deleuze and Guattari's description of philosophy as the laying out of a plane that enables new concepts, a discussion of the "new, " and how/if methodology can be thought in the "new."