Materials of Culture : : Approaches to Materials in Cultural Studies / / ed. by Airin Farahmand, László Munteán, Liedeke Plate.

• Funder: Radboud University Nijmwegen
• MitwirkendeR: Adriaensen, Brigitte,; Atalaia, Nuno,; Boom, Jeroen,; Bruggeman, Daniëlle,; Cober, Carlijn,; Dam, Frederik van,; Ekkelboom, Oscar,
• HerausgeberIn: Farahmand, Airin,; Munteán, László,; Plate, Liedeke,
• Author: Radboud University Nijmwegen
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 285
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)

While the so-called material turn in the humanities and the social sciences has inspired a vibrant discourse on objects, things, and the concept of materiality in general, less attention has been paid to materials, particularly in cultural studies scholarship. With each of its chapters taking a particular material as its point of departure, this volume offers a palette of fresh approaches to materials within the realm of cultural studies. The contributors call for a materials-based perspective on culture, which has become all the more pertinent by the need for sustainability in times of climate change, energy crisis, conflict, migration, and the lingering coronavirus pandemic.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Materials Matter -- Part I: Materials of Art -- Fig. 1: Dora Maar, Hand-Shell, 1934. London, Tate Modern -- 1. Stitched into Material: On the Makeability of Shells -- 2. Celluloid -- Part II: Materials of Empire -- 3. Roman Concrete -- 4. Postclassical Marble: Reclaiming Flux in the Reception of Marble in Contemporary Art -- Part III: Extractivism and Toxic Colonialism -- 5. Asbestos: The Fallout of Shipbreaking in the Global South -- 6. Copper’s Suppressed History Unearthed in Otobong Nkanga’s Sensual and Embodied Art Practice -- 7. The Coloniality of Materiality: Brazilwood, or Unlearning with Anton de Kom in the Mauritshuis -- Part IV: Energyscapes of the Future -- 8. Lithium for the Metaverse: Myths of Nuclear and Digital Fusion -- 9. Harnessing the Sun in Tech-on-Climate Discourse -- Part V: Materials of the Nation -- 10. Dutch Peat -- 11. Milk: Material Entwinements and the Making and Unmaking of Healthy Bodies -- 12. Wool -- Part VI: Affordances of Edible Matter -- 13. Yes, There Are No Bananas -- 14. Coca(ine) -- Part VII: Material Practices in Digital Culture -- 15. The Ephemeral Materiality of Sound -- 16. Tracing the Voice’s Digital Materiality -- 17. Interface -- Part VIII: Enfolding the Body -- 18. Becoming-with: On Textile Companions and Fungi Friends -- 19. Clothing For/Against Walking -- 20. Mylar Foil: Blankets of Silver and Gold -- Part IX: Touching Texts -- Fig. 1: The cover of Thomas Pitfield’s The Poetry of Trees (1942). Copyright of the Pitfield Trust. Reproduced with the permission of the Pitfield Trust. -- 21. An Archive of the Future: Wood in Thomas Pitfield’s The Poetry of Trees -- 22. Soft Leather, Wounded Buttons, and a Silk Ribbon: Clothing a Birgittine Rule Manuscript -- Part X: Materials of Scholarly Performance -- Fig. 1: Corridor leading to arts classrooms in school 1. Photograph by the author -- 23. The Arts Classroom -- 24. Ink on Paper -- 25. The Scholar’s Coffee -- List of Contributors