Not So New Materialism
Homeostasis Revisited
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3856552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin J Murphy, Benjamin Murphy (0009-0000-6973-6153, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-36 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Configurations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-1801 • E-ISSN: 1080-6520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/con.2019.0000 |
| OpenAlex | W2909408327 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 15 |
The term "homeostasis" is routinely discarded within contemporary eco-discourse. But this paper revisits a largely over-looked moment of homeostatic theorization, a moment that is both consonant with, as well as instructive for, current trends in ecocritical new materialism. Challenging the purported newness of "new materialism," then, this paper goes on to consider the benefits of revisiting Walter B. Cannon's writings on "social homeostasis." Mediated by Georges Canguilhem's criticisms of this work, on the one hand, and by work in feminist science studies on the other, Cannon's thinking promotes a political vision currently attenuated in contemporary new materialist eco-discourse
Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Historical materialism · Marxist philosophy · Materialism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
The normal and the pathological
How We Became Posthuman
From Balance of Nature to Hierarchical Patch Dynamics
Organization for Physiological Homeostasis
The Concept of Equilibrium in American Social Thought
Walter B. Cannon, L. J. Henderson, and the Organic Analogy
Feminist Theory and the Body
From Claude Bernard to Walter Cannon. Emergence of the concept of homeostasis
Literature and Environment
A Body Worth Defending
Organicism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Openness and Protection
From Flexible Bodies to Fluid Minds
Vibrant Matter
| Citations per year | 0.57 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |