Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman Bennett Jane
Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman Bennett Jane In influx & efflux Jane Bennett pursues a question that was bracketed in her book Vibrant Matter how to think about human agency in a…
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Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman Bennett Jane
In influx & efflux Jane Bennett pursues a question that was bracketed in her book Vibrant Matter how to think about human agency in a world teeming with powerful nonhuman influences? How to describe the human efforts involved in that process? "Influx & efflux"--a phrase borrowed from Whitman's "Song of Myself"--refers to everyday movements whereby outside influences enter bodies, infuse and confuse their organization, and then exit, themselves having been transformed into something new.
Drawing upon Whitman, Thoreau, Caillois, Whitehead, and other poetic writers, Bennett links a nonanthropocentric model of self to a radically egalitarian pluralism and also to a syntax and style of writing appropriate to the entangled world in which we live. What kinds of "I" and "we" can live well and act effectively in a world of so many other lively materialities? The book tries