"What demystification uncovers is always something human, for example, the hidden quest for domination on the part of some humans over others, a human desire to deflect responsibility for harms done, or an unjust distribution of (human) power.  Demystification tends to screen from view the vitality of matter and to reduce political agency to human capacity.  Those are the tendencies that I resist." (preface, xv)

Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2010