Objects and Materials: A Routledge Companion

ISBN-13: 9780415678803 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 422 str.

Penelope Harvey; Eleanor Casella; Gillian Evans

Opis

There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to take place through attention to practice, to object-mediated relations, to non-human agency and to the affective dimensions of human sociality. This Companion focuses on the objects and materials found at centre stage, and asks: what matters about objects?

Spis treści

1. Objects and Materials: An Introduction  Part I: Material Qualities  Part I Introduction  2. An Interview with Artist Helen Barff  3. A Poor Workman Blames His Tools or How Irrigation Systems Structure Human Actions  4. The Material Construction of State Power: Artifacts and the New Rome  5. The Material Politics of Solid Waste: Decentralization and Integrated Systems  6. From Stone to God and Back Again: Why We Need Both Materials and Materiality  7. New Materials and Their Impact on the Material World  8. Decay, Temporality and the Politics of Conservation: An Archaeological Approach to Material Studies  Part II: Affective Objects  Part II Introduction  9. Boxing Films: Sensation and Affect  10. Tactile Compositions  11. Bodies and Cadavers  12. Domination and Desire: The Paradox of Egyptian Human Remains in Museums  13. A Dream of Falling: Philosophy and Family Violence  14. Sarah Kofman’s Father’s Pen and Bracha Ettinger’s Mother’s Spoon: Trauma, Transmission and the Strings of Virtuality  15. Spectral Objects: Material Links to Difficult Pasts for Adoptive Families  Part III: Unsettling Objects  Part III Introduction  16. Haunting in the Material of Everyday Life  17. The Fetish of Connectivity  18. Useless Objects: Commodities, Collections and Fetishes in the Politics of Objects  19. The Unknown Objects of Object-Orientation  20. How Things Can Unsettle  21. Objects Are the Root of All Philosophy  Part IV: Interface Objects  Part IV Introduction  22. True Automobility  23. The Environmental Teapot and Other Loaded Household Objects: Re-connecting the Politics of Technology, Issues and Things  24. Interfaces: The Mediation of Things and the Distribution of Behaviours  25. Idempotent, Pluripotent, Biodigital: Objects in the ‘Biological Century’  26. Real-ising the Virtual: Digital Simulation and the Politics of Future Making  27. Money Frontiers: The Relative Location of Euros, Turkish Lira and Gold Sovereigns in the Aegean  28. Algorithms and the Manufacture of Financial Reality  Part V: Becoming Object  Part V Introduction  29. Animal Architextures  30. Objects Made Out of Action  31. Quantitative Objects and Qualitative Things: Ethics and HIV Biomedical Prevention  32. Potentialities and Possibilities of Needs Assessment: Objects, Memory and Crystal Images  33. Digital Traces and the ‘Print’ of Threat: Targeting Populations in the War on Terror  34. Intangible Objects: How Patent Law is Redefining Materiality  35. Thinking through Place and Late ANT Spatialities  36. What Documents Make Possible: Realising London’s Olympic Legacy