Books like Connectedness

Loved Connectedness by Diana Coole? Here are 8 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.

8 books

1Meeting the Universe Halfway
Meeting the Universe Halfway
Karen Barad
It develops a relational account of matter and agency that also draws on physics and philosophy.
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2Vibrant Matter
Vibrant Matter
Jane Bennett
It argues that matter is active and lively, a central idea in the new materialist debate that Coole also engages.
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3Reassembling the Social
Reassembling the Social
Bruno Latour
It rethinks social life as networks of human and nonhuman connections, challenging the idea of the social as a separate domain.
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4Staying with the Trouble
Staying with the Trouble
Donna J. Haraway
It explores how humans and other species are entangled, using the idea of making kin across boundaries.
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5Process and Reality
Process and Reality
Alfred North Whitehead
It is a foundational process metaphysics that treats relations and events as more basic than fixed substances.
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6Hyperobjects
Hyperobjects
Timothy Morton
It argues that some entities are so widely distributed in time and space that they challenge ordinary ideas of separate objects.
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7Bodily Natures
Bodily Natures
Stacy Alaimo
It traces how human bodies are part of material environments, linking embodiment to ecological and political concerns.
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8The Web of Life
The Web of Life
Fritjof Capra
It presents living systems as networks of relationships, offering a more popular account of systems thinking in ecology.
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