Jane Bennett

"Encounters with an Art-Thing"

"Its purpose was to discuss a small archive that krajewska had recently acquired from AXA Artv Insurance Corporation."

"The discussion that I have just described seemed to be organized around the implicit assumption that if we could indeed apply the proper category to these items."

"No Longer Art."

"Salvage Art Institute."

"Do you know what the world is to me."

"A monster of energy, without beginning, without end, that does not expend itself but only transforms itself."

"A sea of forces flowing and rushing together, eternally changing."

"What counts as the material of vital materialism."

"Is it only human labour and the socio-economic entities made by men using raw materials."

"Is materiality more potent than that."

"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."