This essay explores how contemporary political life is framed through engagements with material forms. Extending work that has demonstrated that politics is best understood not as a discursive or institutional sphere but as the effect of material engagements, the essay asks, just how is it that materials become the grounds for politics? Focusing on the history of a road construction project in the Peruvian Amazon, the essay illustrates how politics becomes realized through engagements that entail the affective force of emergent materialities that break through or rupture a normalized understanding of sociomaterial relations. This rupture cracks open a space for material diagnostics, wherein both familiar and unfamiliar political forms are able to take shape. Thus in material diagnostics are found both the potential for ontological difference and considerable repair work wherein the grounds for a future politics is remade.

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情感基础设施和政治想象

本文探讨了如何通过与物质形式的接触来构建当代政治生活。扩展已经证明政治最好不是被理解为一个话语或制度领域，而是被理解为物质参与的影响的工作，这篇文章问道，物质是如何成为政治的基础的？这篇文章以秘鲁亚马逊公路建设项目的历史为重点，阐述了政治如何通过涉及突发物质的情感力量而实现，这些参与需要突破或破坏对社会物质关系的正常理解。这种破裂为材料诊断开辟了空间，熟悉和陌生的政治形式都能够在其中形成。