Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. Carbon 31

2. Membranes 53

3. Proteins 77

4. Oxygen 101

5. Time 119

Conclusion 147

Notes 161

References 167

Index 183

About the Author

Samantha Frost is Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the coeditor of New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, also published by Duke University Press, and the author of Lessons from a Materialist Thinker: Hobbesian Reflections on Ethics and Politics.

Reviews

"This is a remarkable book, of interest and highly recommended to any researcher-across scientific, social science, and humanities disciplines-exploring the intersections of life sciences and politics, 'filling out the conceptual hunches' of posthumanism, or in any way intrigued by how matter matters at all levels of our creaturely experience."

-- Emily Beausoleil * Theory & Event *
"Frost's important text is creative, profoundly suggestive, and painstakingly argued." -- Romand Coles * Theory & Event *