This book explores the intertwining of politics and ontology, shedding light on the ways in
which, as our ability to investigate, regulate, appropriate,'enhance'and destroy material
reality have developed, so new social scientific accounts of nature and our relationship with
it have emerged, together with new forms of power. Engaging with cutting-edge social theory
and elaborating on the thought of Foucault, Heidegger, Adorno and Agamben, the author
demonstrates that the convergence of ontology with politics is not simply an intellectual …

By inviting the reader to consider our catastrophic times, this book provides an invitation to
debate the political implications of the so-called ontological turn in social sciences. By
analysing a set of intellectual perspectives particularly relevant in social theory--such as
actor network theory, feminist new materialism, Marxist political ecology, multinaturalism,
speculative realism and Virno's philosophy of the human--the author underlines the limits of
the ontological turn which does' not offer grounds for a critique robust enough, laying itself …