Materials of Culture : Approaches to Materials in Cultural Studies /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Plate, Liedeke (Editor ), Munteán, László (Editor ), Farahmand, Airin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, 2023.
Colección:Culture & theory ; vol. 285.
Temas:
Material culture.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Culture matérielle.
Culture > Étude et enseignement.
material culture (discipline)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
Culture > Study and teaching
Material culture
Art.
Cultural History.
Cultural Studies.
Cultural Theory.
Culture.
Material Culture.
Media.
Society.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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