Dorothy Kwek
Biographic Data
| ID | 3458461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorothy Kwek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Kwek |
| SIGNATURE | KWEK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Konstanz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0542-5783 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘Acting amidst’ – a conversation with Jane Bennett, facilitated by Anna Grear
Jane’s paper (‘Acting amidst: some concepts and practices’ in this special issue) was followed by the following discussion
Eco-social new-materialist reflections for the Anthropocene
Towards the end of 2019 Jane Bennett and William E Connolly visited Cardiff University as keynote speakers for the speaker series, ‘Imagining the Eco-Social: New Materialist Reflections for the Anthropocene’. Organized by Anna Grear, the series sought to push the boundaries of the social into more complex material engagements and brought law and justice-based questions haunting the so-called Anthropocene into conversation with new materialist and…
The Importance of Being Useless: A Cross-Cultural Contribution to the New Materialisms from Zhuangzi
The recent 'material turn' focuses on materiality in two distinctive ways: one, by including nonhuman agencies, another, by mining indigenous knowledges for alternative conceptions of agency and human-thing relations. A troubling gap persists between the two endeavours. The gap insinuates an us-them dichotomy and, more importantly, curtails communication between radically different visions of thingly agency - thereby impeding the political drive …
Affect Matters: Strolling through Heterological Ecologies
The recent “materialist turn” stresses the fundamental role of nonhumans in the constitution of humans’ social and political life and argues that the inability to grasp their importance dooms normative prognoses for ordering society to ethical, political, and practical failure. This article combines insights from recent affect theory and indigenous and non–North Atlantic societies in response to this epistemological and theoretical critique. It a…
Power and the Multitude: A Spinozist View
Benedict Spinoza (1634–1677) is feted as the philosopher par excellence of the popular democratic multitude by Antonio Negri and others. But Spinoza himself expresses a marked ambivalence about the multitude in brief asides, and as for his thoughts on what he calls “the rule of (the) multitude,” that is, democracy, these exist only as meager fragments in his unfinished Tractatus Politicus or Political Treatise. This essay addresses the problem of…
The Importance of Being Useless: A Cross-Cultural Contribution to the New Materialisms from Zhuangzi
The recent 'material turn' focuses on materiality in two distinctive ways: one, by including nonhuman agencies, another, by mining indigenous knowledges for alternative conceptions of agency and human-thing relations. A troubling gap persists between the two endeavours. The gap insinuates an us-them dichotomy and, more importantly, curtails communication between radically different visions of thingly agency - thereby impeding the political drive …
Power and the Multitude: A Spinozist View
Benedict Spinoza (1634–1677) is feted as the philosopher par excellence of the popular democratic multitude by Antonio Negri and others. But Spinoza himself expresses a marked ambivalence about the multitude in brief asides, and as for his thoughts on what he calls “the rule of (the) multitude,” that is, democracy, these exist only as meager fragments in his unfinished Tractatus Politicus or Political Treatise. This essay addresses the problem of…
Power and the Multitude: A Spinozist View
Benedict Spinoza (1634–1677) is feted as the philosopher par excellence of the popular democratic multitude by Antonio Negri and others. But Spinoza himself expresses a marked ambivalence about the multitude in brief asides, and as for his thoughts on what he calls “the rule of (the) multitude,” that is, democracy, these exist only as meager fragments in his unfinished Tractatus Politicus or Political Treatise. This essay addresses the problem of…
Affect Matters: Strolling through Heterological Ecologies
The recent “materialist turn” stresses the fundamental role of nonhumans in the constitution of humans’ social and political life and argues that the inability to grasp their importance dooms normative prognoses for ordering society to ethical, political, and practical failure. This article combines insights from recent affect theory and indigenous and non–North Atlantic societies in response to this epistemological and theoretical critique. It a…
The Importance of Being Useless: A Cross-Cultural Contribution to the New Materialisms from Zhuangzi
The recent 'material turn' focuses on materiality in two distinctive ways: one, by including nonhuman agencies, another, by mining indigenous knowledges for alternative conceptions of agency and human-thing relations. A troubling gap persists between the two endeavours. The gap insinuates an us-them dichotomy and, more importantly, curtails communication between radically different visions of thingly agency - thereby impeding the political drive …
‘Acting amidst’ – a conversation with Jane Bennett, facilitated by Anna Grear
Jane’s paper (‘Acting amidst: some concepts and practices’ in this special issue) was followed by the following discussion
Eco-social new-materialist reflections for the Anthropocene
Towards the end of 2019 Jane Bennett and William E Connolly visited Cardiff University as keynote speakers for the speaker series, ‘Imagining the Eco-Social: New Materialist Reflections for the Anthropocene’. Organized by Anna Grear, the series sought to push the boundaries of the social into more complex material engagements and brought law and justice-based questions haunting the so-called Anthropocene into conversation with new materialist and…
Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Indigenous (2 works)