How can political theory do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in every event and every stabilization?
Is there a form of theory that can acknowledge a certain ‘thing-power’, that is, the irreducibility of objects to the human meanings or agendas they also embody?
[9]In her most frequently cited book, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things,[10] Bennett's argument is that, "Edibles, commodities, storms, and metals act as quasi agents, with their own trajectories, potentialities and tendencies.".
[7] Bennett has also published books on American authors Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
Public lectures she has given include "Impersonal Sympathy", a talk theorizing 'sympathy' in which she considered the alchemist-physician Paracelsus (1493-1541) and Walt Whitman's collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass.