The Thing's Matter Library

This page provides a list of resources contributed by the Thing's Matter Team. This list is always growing and we welcome any relevant resources you might like to share. 

Texts

  • Bennett, Jane. “Encounters with an Art-Thing.” Evental Aesthetics 3, no. 3, 2015, pp. 91-110.
  • Bennett, Jane. “Of Material Sympathies, Paracelsus, and Whitman.” Material Ecocriticism, edited by Serenella Iovino and Serpil Opperman, pp. 239-52. Indiana UP, 2014.
  • Bennett, Jane. “Systems and Things: A Response to Graham Harman and Timothy Morton.” New Literary History, vol. 43, no. 2, 2012, pp. 225–233. www.jstor.org/stable/23259373. Accessed 11 Feb. 2020.
  • Bennett, Jane. “The Force of Things – Steps toward an Ecology of Matter.” Political Theory, June 2004. pp. 347-72.
  • Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter. Duke UP, 2009.
  • Benson, Etienne. “Generating Infrastructural Invisibility: Insulation, Interconnection, and Avian Excrement in the Southern California Power Grid.” Environmental Humanities, vol. 6, 2015. 
  • Coles, Romand. “Walt Whitman, Jane Bennett, and the Paradox of Antagonistic Sympathy.” Political Research Quarterly, vol. 69, no. 3, 2016, pp. 621–625. www.jstor.org/stable/44018561. Accessed 11 Feb. 2020.
  • Cubitt, Sean. Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies. Duke UP, 2009.
  • Freedgood, Elaine. The Ideas in Things. U Chicago P, 2006.
  • Hawkins, Gay. The Ethics of Waste: How We Relate to Rubbish. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006. 
  • Lemke, Thomas. "An Alternative Model of Politics? Prospects and Problems of Jane Bennett’s Vital Materialism." Theory, Culture & Society 35.6 (2018): 31-54. Web.
  • Mattern, Shannon. Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media. Minnesota UP, 2017.
  • Racklin, Meghan. ​“Instead of hiding rips and tears, the visible mending movement turns them into art.” Vox, 25 May 2019.
  • Van Wyk, Alan R. "What matters now?" Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, vol. 8, no. 2, 2012.
  • Watson, Janell and Jane Bennett. "Eco-sensibilities: An Interview with Jane Bennett." Minnesota Review 81.1 (2013): 147-58.

Filmography

The following is an incomplete list of films related to the environment, nature, food, industry, and wildlife from roughly the past twenty years. There are countless films we haven’t seen  come across and will be adding to this list accordingly based on what we see and based on suggestions.
  • Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (Dir. Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky. 2018)
  • Aquarela (Dir. Viktor Kosakovskiy 2018)
  • The Cove (Dir. Louie Psihoyos 2007)
  • Darwin’s Nightmare (Dir. Hubert Sauper 2004)
  • Encounters at the End of the World (Dir. Werner Herzog 2007)
  • Food, Inc. (Dir. Robert Kenner 2008)
  • The Gleaners and I (Dir. Agnès Varda 1999)
  • Grizzly Man (Dir. Werner Herzog 2005)
  • Hawaii: A Message in the Waves (Dir. Rebecca Hoskins for BBC Natural History 2007)
  • An Inconvenient Truth (Dir. David Guggenheim 2006) 
  • Into Eternity (Dir. Michael Madsen 2010)
  • Into the Inferno (Dir. Werner Herzog 2016)
  • King Corn (Dir. Aaron Woolf 2007)
  • Lessons of Darkness (Dir. Werner Herzog 1992)
  • Leviathan (Dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel 2012)
  • Manufactured Landscapes (Dir. Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky 2006)
  • The Moo Man (Dir. Andy Heathcote & Heike Bachelier 2013)
  • Once Was Water (Dir. Christopher Beaver 2019)
  • Our Daily Bread (Dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter 2005)
  • People of the Sea (Dir. Hugh Miles and Patrick Morris for BBC Natural World 1997).
  • Sharkwater (Dir. Rob Stewart 2007)
  • Terra (Dir. Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Michael Pitiot 2015)
  • Waste Land (Dir. Lucy Walker 2010)
  • Watermark (Dir. Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky 2013)
  • Who Killed the Electric Car? (2005 Dir. Chris Paine)