The book seeks to make a range of new materialist concepts accessible to researchers in the social sciences, and to work those theoretical possibilities through data of various kinds drawn from both the author's research and autoethnographic experiences.

Bronwyn Davies is an independent scholar, with honorary professorships at the universities of Melbourne and Western Sydney. She left academe in protest ten years ago at the growing stranglehold of neoliberalism on academic work. She has written her best work since then and enjoyed several wonderful academic collaborations. See bronwyndavies.com.au for details.

1. Delving into New Materialism 2. Vital Materiality 3. Finding and Fostering the Conditions of Creative Production 4. Thing-Power 5. Collective Biography: A Diffractive Methodology 6. Three Components of the Refrain 7. Recognition 8. Intuition and the Flow In Between One and Another 9. Ethico-onto-epistemology: Inventing New Possibilities of Life