Materials of Culture : : Approaches to Materials in Cultural Studies /

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

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 part...

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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,
:
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.)
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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

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