The blog reading group on Jane Bennett’s new book Vibrant Matter has begun. Links below

The Overview.

An Interview with Jane Bennett

Preface.

Chapter 1, Section I.

Chapter 1, Sections II-V.

Chapter 1, Section VI.

Adrian Ivakhiv has added some thoughts here.

I’ll be interested to see how this develops. I have read the book and found it very interesting, beautifully written and full of ideas. But I am not sure how it should impact on my own work in the history of ideas. This is one of the reasons why the conference on Speculative Medievalisms will be interesting. I may post some more thoughts on this (I’m currently rereading the book).

You can find the rest of the schedule here