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Posthumanism exhorts us to pay more attention to nonhuman things, but can we actually engage any more ‘deeply’ with non-sentient objects, and in a way that detaches our investigations from human concerns and positionality?
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Bennett, L. (2016). Thinking like a Brick: Posthumanism and Building Materials. In: Taylor, C.A., Hughes, C. (eds) Posthuman Research Practices in Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137453082_5
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