Materials of Culture : Approaches to Materials in Cultural Studies

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
Autor Corporativo: Radboud University Nijmwegen funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Adriaensen, Brigitte, contributor (contributor), Atalaia, Nuno, contributor (editor), Boom, Jeroen, contributor, Bruggeman, Daniëlle, contributor, Cober, Carlijn, contributor, Dam, Frederik van, contributor, Ekkelboom, Oscar, contributor, Farahmand, Airin, editor, Munteán, László, editor, Plate, Liedeke, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag [2023]
Colección:Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 285
Materias:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
Art.
Cultural History.
Cultural Studies.
Cultural Theory.
Culture.
Material Culture.
Media.
Society.
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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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