Summary Of Vibnt Matter By Jane Bennett

We as an economy and society need to see the entire world as a living and breathing entity that must be looked after just as we look after ourselves. A professor of political science Jane Bennett in her book, “Vibrant Matter,” Tries to expand the policies in place to hover over not only the human, non-human but also the non-living. By giving agency to material objects she shows that food can impact the way rats, young children, and incarcerated individuals think and act (Bennett 41). Bennett’s view on policy is the same type of ecological sensitivity in the religion of Panentheism, which is the view that the world is with in some sense “within” God, although God is also more than the world (Clayton 118). In this paper I will outline what Jane
The order she is describing is not what she believes to be accurate but what she wishes to see change. Frist is that life is different than matter (86). You can tell by how living matter has a type of freedom that doesn’t encapsulate matter. Matter on the other hand is predetermined and carries a certain type of order. Second is that human life is different from non-human life. This difference can be distinguishable because humans are given a “life force” where non-human things never received. With being able to have a soul then there must be something that grants you this energy of two types of self. This divine entity which would fall under the third belief. Lastly this divine Omnipotent being created us to be anthropocentric when it comes to the living (86). This superiority gives us the right to make decisions for all other living creatures because we know what is best since we humans are at the highest part of the totem
This respect could be based off of Christianity or Panentheism. There is no strict rules on how to respect the planet and there should be some put in place because it is the body in which we are living. Bennett talks about demystification which is an ecological stance where individuals take care of themselves and others alike. These ways of thinking can be used to place restrictions on what to grow or what pesticides to spray. These can also be used to form a new sense of political morality into the fabric of the American Nation. There will always be a sense of non-identity or a place for not knowing everything. That makes the universe that more powerful. Humanity lives inside of its own reality but can expand the reality if it can expand the body. This body is her body- or Gods body. If one were to respect something and not be able to understand it fully then it would be this thing that is called many things by various cultures but is something that can make a man crazy. Her body gives our body something to which we can become a more whole country and