A student at my faculty* asked me to share some sources on post-structuralism. The field is new to me, but here we go for the time-being. This list is not intended to be complete, it’s just a start to dig your own way in.

Open Humanities Press

They are publishing an open access series on new metaphysics a.o. ‘The Democracy of Objects‘ (Bryant 2011) and ‘New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies‘ (Dolphijn & Tuin 2012).

Karen Barad

Her book ‘Meeting the universe halfway: quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning’ (Barad, 2007) is thought provoking. A good start could be her paper ‘Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter.’ (Barad, 2003).

Levi R. Bryant

His blog ‘Larval Subjects’ is a good start for his Object Oriented Ontology [ooo]. You can download books through links on the left such as ‘The Democracy of Objects‘ (2011) and ‘The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism‘.

Iris van der Tuin & Rick Dolphijn

Published an open access book ‘New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies‘ and it’s worthwhile to check their papers in a variety of journals.

Missing out here

I did not yet investigate: Jacques Derrida, Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Roy Bhaskar, Gilles Deleuze, Niklas Luhman, Jacques Lacan, Bruno Latour.

There must be missing a lot of names here.

Bibliography

Barad, K. 2003. ‘Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter.’ Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 28:3, 801-31.

Barad, K. M. 2007. Meeting the universe halfway: quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Durham: Duke University Press.

Bryant, L. R. 2011. The democracy of objects. Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press.

Bryant, L. R., Srnicek, N. & Harman, G. 2011. The speculative turn : continental materialism and realism. Melbourne, Victoria, S. Aust.: re.press.

Dolphijn, R. & Tuin, I. v. d. 2012. ‘New materialism interviews & cartographies.’ Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press.

* Eindhoven University of Technology, department of Industrial Design