What's Real Is Immaterial: What Are We Doing With New Materialism?

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aut.relation.journalAporia : The Nursing Journalen_NZ
aut.researcherNicholls, David
dc.contributor.authorNicholls, Den_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-01T23:55:15Z
dc.date.available2019-12-01T23:55:15Z
dc.date.copyright2020-06-01en_NZ
dc.date.issued2020-06-01en_NZ
dc.description.abstractNew materialism is emerging as one of the most significant developments in healthcare research in recent years, offering radical new ways to rethink our critical relationship with forms, matter, objects and things. As with any new paradigm, it can take some time for the limitations of the approach to become clear. In this article I examine some of these limitations, focusing particularly on new materialist definitions of objects and the ontology of affect. Drawing on the recent work of Graham Harman and Timothy Morton, I argue that new materialism fails the ‘flat ontology test’, and reinforces the kinds of idealism that it purports to critique. Object Oriented Ontology, on the other hand, may allow us to shape a radical new ethics of objects, using that to transform our abusive relationship with the ecosystem, disturb traditional enlightenment binaries and hierarchies, and to put aside human hubris.en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationAporia, 2019: Vol.11, Issue 2
dc.identifier.issn1918-1345en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/13056
dc.publisherUniversity of Ottawaen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttps://uottawa.scholarsportal.info/ottawa/index.php/aporia/index
dc.rightsAporia is an open access journal, for which there are no submission, publication, or processing fees. Authors retain copyright, and are able to enter into separate contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of their published material. Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccessen_NZ
dc.subjectObject oriented ontologyen_NZ
dc.subjectNew materialismen_NZ
dc.titleWhat's Real Is Immaterial: What Are We Doing With New Materialism?en_NZ
dc.typeJournal Article
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pubs.organisational-data/AUT/PBRF/PBRF Health and Environmental Sciences
pubs.organisational-data/AUT/PBRF/PBRF Health and Environmental Sciences/HY Public Health & Psychosocial Studies 2018 PBRF
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