📖 Overview
Diana Coole and Samantha Frost are political theorists who co-edited "New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics," a collection that examines materialist approaches to political theory. The work brings together scholars exploring how matter, bodies, and objects shape political life.
Coole is a professor of political theory at Birkbeck, University of London, specializing in feminist theory, phenomenology, and political ontology. Her research focuses on embodiment, agency, and the relationship between materiality and politics.
Frost teaches political theory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work centers on political theory, feminist theory, and the intersections between biology and politics.
Their collaborative editing of "New Materialisms" positioned them as key figures in the material turn within political and social theory. The collection features contributions from theorists examining how physical matter and biological processes influence political arrangements and social relations.