## Philosophical Ancestry **Hylozoism > Materialism > New Materialism** ![[Chart of -isms.canvas]] ## Summary Coined by [[@Donna Haraway]] it is a feminist view that the object of knowledge be viewed, not as an object, but as an agent. It rejects the objectification of women or nature and reasserts their autonomy as active agents in the world. > *'In the writer Leslie Allison's words: "Once the borders have dissolved, empathy is not just feeling others' pain or pleasure. It is granting everything its own subjectivity. It is acknowledging that even non-human entitites have a self with which to desire a particular way of living."'* - Elvia Wilk ## Questions - I thought at first that 'agent' was another world for subject. However, I just came across a site that mentioned that Haraway is creating a [[04- Fleeting Notes/New Materialism]]. Does that mean that Haraway is from the family of [[Hylozoism]] which birthed materialism? *Does that mean that Haraway is essentially a spiritual mechanist in disguise? [[Home/017- Posts/Spiritual Mechanism|Spiritual Mechanism]]* - - ## Sources: - [[Wilk, Elvia (2022) Death By Landscape]] -