Experimental Practice

“A provocative call to craft new forms of life—alterontologies—within and against the biofinancial and technoscientific enclosures of advanced capitalism. Speculative and politically engaged, yet firmly grounded in the dynamic materiality of existing worlds, Experimental Practice introduces us to social science fiction—a mode of research and writing that engages with the forces of matter to imagine new ways of being in common. Dimitris Papadopoulos gives us what we most urgently need: a guide for radical politics in the posthuman age.” - Bruce Braun, coeditor of Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life

"In this insightful work of social theory, science studies, feminist theory, and autonomist thought, Dimitris Papadopoulos asks how we might conceive of the work of demanding social and political change, and how we might revamp the concept of ontological politics. This book offers a set of deeply important, thoughtfully posed, and often brilliant interventions. There is both an urgency and a thoughtfulness to Papadopoulos's work that is sorely needed at this moment.” - Cori Hayden, author of When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico

"Offering a mix of keen insights . . . Experimental Practice is a book that will be valuable to academics who share the author's questions and frame of reference." - DJ Mattingly, Choice

"Excellent. . . . Experimental Futures pulls together in endlessly inspiring fashion many concepts and ideas that have been to the forefront of engaged scholarship in geography." - Patrick Bresnihan, Antipode

"Experimental Practice is a thorough and practical account of how matter matters, and how we can bring the non-human or more-than-human world into our political calculus and convincingly sets out a case for experimental practices." - Nicholas Beuret, Sociological Review

"The range of case studies that is presented – from AIDS activism, to HSBC advertising campaigns, to the Struggle for Calais – helps to ground Papadopoulos’s theoretical arguments, and to moderate some of the creative licence that comes from his writing of ‘social science fiction.' . . . Consistently and provocatively argues for a reimagination of socio-political organisation and justice in/and the world." - Orlando Woods, Social & Cultural Geography

"Experimental Practice takes a step forward in challenging the 'social' in Social Movement Studies by exploring the long ignored post-human entanglements of social movements. This original lens provides an important insight for scholars concerned with emancipatory struggles by foregrounding the interdependence of social-movements with their environment, and thus reconceptualizing political autonomy as the ability to remain open and to engage in transformative connections with a multiplicity of human and non-human actors." - Álvaro Ramírez March, Social Movement Studies

"The book…opens a reflection on 'more-than-social' movements, which bring together social and technoscience." - Mathilde Pellizzari, Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances