Tainted tools

Name: Tainted tools
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New materialisms as a decolonial project

Angela Last

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English

Manchester University Press
09 June 2026

Social & political philosophy; History of ideas; Social theory

Tainted Tools offers a provocative intervention into the tense relationship between new materialist and decolonial thought. Although both seek to challenge dominant European categories and hierarchies, they are often treated as incompatible. New materialisms, in particular, have been criticised for sustaining a white, universalised vision of the human and overlooking the racialised histories embedded in the 'nonhuman'. The book traces these tensions to an earlier encounter between new materialist and decolonial projects forged through experimental combinations of Marx and Nietzsche. Once used to counter fascism, Stalinism and colonialism, this politically charged fusion gradually became depoliticised, leaving unresolved contradictions. Rather than reviving these early formations, the book brings their strategies into dialogue with contemporary new materialist and decolonial approaches to build greater theoretical solidarity in times of crisis.

By: Angela Last
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 434g
ISBN: 9781526144256
ISBN 10: 1526144255
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 09 June 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , A / AS level , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introduction 1 Emergency materialisms 2 Spiritualising the Common 3 Confronting Nothing 4 Have we ever been ‘social’? Openings: Towards theoretical (and practical) solidarity -- .

Angela Last is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leicester.