New materialisms

New materialisms is a broad field within contemporary philosophy which seeks to engage with the traditions of materialist philosophy as well as develop new articulations between numerous intellectual currents and between science and philosophy. Many philosophical tendencies are associated with new materialisms, in such a way that the field resist a common definition. Confluences can be located in the rejection of representationalism, of metaphysical invidividualism and the intrinsic distinction of subjectivity and knowledge; new materialisms also share a critical reaction to the theoretical dominance of radical constructivism as well as the normative and analytic political theory. Some theoreticians also emphasize the critique of the deficits and inconsistencies of previous paradigms of materialism, such as phenomenology and marxism.