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Tainted Tools: New Materialisms as a Decolonial Project

Tainted Tools: New Materialisms as a Decolonial Project

Last, Angela

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1526144255
ISBN13: 9781526144256
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Jun 9 2026
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Tainted Tools offers a provocative intervention into the tense relationship between new materialist and decolonial thought. Although both seek to challenge dominant European categories and hierarchies, they are often treated as incompatible. New materialisms, in particular, have been criticised for sustaining a white, universalised vision of the human and overlooking the racialised histories embedded in the nonhuman. The book traces these tensions to an earlier encounter between new materialist and decolonial projects forged through experimental combinations of Marx and Nietzsche. Once used to counter fascism, Stalinism and colonialism, this politically charged fusion gradually became depoliticised, leaving unresolved contradictions. Rather than reviving these early formations, the book brings their strategies into dialogue with contemporary new materialist and decolonial approaches to build greater theoretical solidarity in times of crisis.

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