New book in print with Duke University Press

Reactivating Elements: Substance, Actuality and Practice from Chemistry to Cosmology , co-edited by Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa and Natasha Myers, has been sent to production and will be published in early 2021 with Duke University Press. The collection examines new research on chemical practices and elemental thought and contains the following chapters:

Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Natasha Myers: Elements: From Cosmology to Episteme and Back

PART I: SUBSTANCE

• Isabelle Stengers: Chemical Invariants and Elemental Powers
• Dimitris Papadopoulos: Chemicals, Ecology and Reparative Justice
• Stefan Helmreich: Elementary Forms of Elementary Forms, Old, New, and Wavy
• Joseph Dumit: Substance as Method: Bromine for Example

PART II: ACTUALITY

• Astrid Schrader: Elemental Ghosts, Haunted Carbon Imaginaries, and Living Matter at the Edge of Life
• Joseph Masco: The Artificial World
• Patrick Bresnihan: Tilting at Windmills
• Cori Hayden: Crowding the Elements

PART III: PRACTICE

• Maria Puig de la Bellacasa: Embracing Breakdown – Soil Ecopoethics and the Ambivalences of Remediation
• Tim Choy: Externality, Breathers, Conspiracy: Forms for Atmospheric Reckoning
• Michelle Murphy: Reimaging Chemicals, with and against Technoscience