I owe an article in the next couple of weeks on the new materialisms and darned if RJ doesn’t hit on some of what I planned to discuss in her  initial thoughts on Bennett’s “Vibrant Matter”. It what I’ve outlined of that article thus far, I make the move to investigating through recent work in biopolitics any supposed innocent notions of vibrancy and so on, and RJ herself comes at it from multiple directions. Since I’m late on another article I need to get done tonight, I’ll leave it at that, though it also matches with stuff I’m putting together on the problem of general indifference and anti-hierarchical thinking that is its own form of exclusion. (Bennett–James uses a quote I was going to make much of myself–thus switches to health as a quasi-political category, and this is also something one finds in all manner of vitalists.) Anyway give it a read (she…