Materialist Dialogues and the Granular

Peter Forman

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Materialist Dialogues and the Granular

Peter Forman^*

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Geography and Environmental Sciences

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This commentary reflects upon the utility of the granular as ‘connective wiring’ (Lorimer, 2007: 97, cited in Jamieson, 2020: 2) for bringing New Materialists’ concerns for materiality into dialogue with Historical Materialists’ interests in the historical power relations through which social phenomena emerge. I argue that further work is now needed to demonstrate how the granular can reconcile New Materialists’ insistence on creative vitality with Marxist interests.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	307-310
Number of pages	4
Journal	Dialogues in Human Geography
Volume	11
Issue number	2
Early online date	31 Mar 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206211004859
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2021

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