Objects and Materials: A Routledge Companion

ISBN-13: 9781138899414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 440 str.

Penny Harvey; Eleanor Conlin 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?

Objects and Materials explores the field, providing succinct summary accounts of contemporary scholarship, along with a wealth of new research investigating the capacity of objects to shape, unsettle and exceed expectations. Original chapters from over forty international, interdisciplinary contributors address an array of objects and materials to ask what the terms of collaborations with objects and materials are, and to consider how these collaborations become integral to our understandings of the complex, relational dynamics that fashion social worlds.

Objects and Materials will be of interest to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities, including in sociology, social theory, science and technology studies, history, anthropology, archaeology, gender studies, women s studies, geography, cultural studies, politics and international relations, and philosophy."

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