Experimental Practice

Dimitris Papadopoulos is Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Nottingham and coauthor of Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the Twenty-First Century and Analysing Everyday Experience: Social Research and Political Change.

• Introduction  11. Decolonial Politics of Matter  11Part I. Movements2. Biofinancialization as Terraformation  273. Ontological Organizing  49Part II. History Remix4. Activist Materialism  795. Insurgent Posthumanism  94Part III. Alterontologies6. Brain Matter  1177. Compositional Technoscience  1388. Crafting Ontologies  160Acknowledgments  209Notes  211References  257Index  323

"Offering a mix of keen insights . . . Experimental Practice is a book that will be valuable to academics who share the author's questions and frame of reference." - DJ Mattingly (Choice) "Excellent. . . . Experimental Futures pulls together in endlessly inspiring fashion many concepts and ideas that have been to the forefront of engaged scholarship in geography." - Patrick Bresnihan (Antipode) "Experimental Practice is a thorough and practical account of how matter matters, and how we can bring the non-human or more-than-human world into our political calculus and convincingly sets out a case for experimental practices." - Nicholas Beuret (Sociological Review) "The range of case studies that is presented – from AIDS activism, to HSBC advertising campaigns, to the Struggle for Calais – helps to ground Papadopoulos’s theoretical arguments, and to moderate some of the creative licence that comes from his writing of ‘social science fiction.' . . . Consistently and provocatively argues for a reimagination of socio-political organisation and justice in/and the world." - Orlando Woods (Social & Cultural Geography) "Experimental Practice takes a step forward in challenging the 'social' in Social Movement Studies by exploring the long ignored post-human entanglements of social movements. This original lens provides an important insight for scholars concerned with emancipatory struggles by foregrounding the interdependence of social-movements with their environment, and thus reconceptualizing political autonomy as the ability to remain open and to engage in transformative connections with a multiplicity of human and non-human actors." - Álvaro Ramírez March (Social Movement Studies)