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Objects and materials : a Routledge companion

Contributor(s): Series: Culture, economy and the socialPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: xviii, 421 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780415678803
  • 0415678803
  • 9781138899414
  • 1138899410
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GN 406 OBJ
Contents:
1. Objects and materials : an introduction / Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox -- Part I. Material qualities. Introduction / Gillian Evans ; 2. An interview with artist Helen Barff / Gillian Evans ; 3. A poor workman blames his tools, or how irrigation systems structure human actions / Maurits W. Ertsen ; 4. The material construction of state power : artifacts and the new Rome / Chandra Mukerji ; 5. The material politics of solid waste : decentralization and integrated systems / Penny Harvey ; 6. From stone to god and back again : why we need both materials and materiality / Soumhya Venkatesan ; 7. New materials and their impact on the material world / Susanne Küchler and Peter Oakley ; 8. Decay, temporality and the politics of conservation : an archaeological approach to material studies / Eleanor Conlin Casella and Karina Croucher -- Part II. Affective objects.
Summary: 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. -- Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Objects and materials : an introduction / Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox -- Part I. Material qualities. Introduction / Gillian Evans ; 2. An interview with artist Helen Barff / Gillian Evans ; 3. A poor workman blames his tools, or how irrigation systems structure human actions / Maurits W. Ertsen ; 4. The material construction of state power : artifacts and the new Rome / Chandra Mukerji ; 5. The material politics of solid waste : decentralization and integrated systems / Penny Harvey ; 6. From stone to god and back again : why we need both materials and materiality / Soumhya Venkatesan ; 7. New materials and their impact on the material world / Susanne Küchler and Peter Oakley ; 8. Decay, temporality and the politics of conservation : an archaeological approach to material studies / Eleanor Conlin Casella and Karina Croucher -- Part II. Affective objects.

Introduction / Eleanor Conlin Casella and Kath Woodward ; Boxing films : sensation and affect / Kath Woodward ; Tactile compositions / Kathleen Stewart ; Bodies and cadavers / Maryon McDonald ; Domination and desire : the paradox of Egyptian human remains in museums / Karen Exell ; A dream of falling : philosophy and family violence / Patricia Ticineto Clough ; Sarah Kofman's father's pen and Bracha Ettinger's mother's spoon : trauma, transmission and the strings of virtuality / Griselda Pollock ; Spectral objects : material links to difficult pasts for adoptive families / Steven D. Brown, Paula Reavey and Helen Brookfield -- Unsettling objects. Introduction / Elizabeth B. Silva ; Haunting in the material of everyday life / Elizabeth B. Silva ; The fetish of connectivity / Morten Axel Pedersen ; Useless objects : commodities, collections and fetishes in the politics of objects / Nicholas Thoburn ; The unknown objects of object-orientation / Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey ; How things can unsettle / Martin Holbraad ; Objects are the root of all philosophy / Graham Harman -- Interface objects. Introduction / Nicholas Thoburn ; True automobility / Tim Dant ; The environmental teapot and other loaded household objects : reconnecting the politics of technology, issues and things / Noortje Marres ; Interfaces : the mediation of things and the distribution of behaviours / Celia Lury ; Idempotent, pluripotent, biodigital : objects in the 'biological century' / Adrian Mackenzie ; Real-izing the virtual : digital simulation and the politics of future making / Hannah Knox ; Money frontiers : the relative location of euros, Turkish lira and gold sovereigns in the Aegean / Sarah Green ; Algorithms and the manufacture of financial reality / Marc Lenglet -- Becoming object. Introduction / Chris McLean and Gillian Evans ; Animal architextures / John Law and Marianne Elisabeth Lien ; Objects made out of action / Matei Candea ; Quantitative objects and qualitative things : ethics and HIV biomedical prevention / Mike Michael and Marsha Rosengarten ; Potentialities and possibilities of needs assessment : objects, memory and crystal images / Chris McLean ; Digital traces and the 'print' of threat : targeting populations in the war on terror / Alexandra Hall and Jonathan Mendel ; Intangible objects : how patent law is redefining materiality / Mario Biagioli ; Thinking through place and late actor-network-theory spatialities / Robert Oppenheim ; What documents make possible : realizing London's Olympic legacy / Gillian Evans.

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. -- Publisher's description.

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