Search Results - "Material culture"

Captivating algorithms: Recommender systems as traps by Seaver, Nick

“…Algorithmic recommender systems are a ubiquitous feature of contemporary cultural life online, suggesting music, movies, and other materials to their users…”
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Redefining pollution and action: The matter of plastics by Liboiron, Max

“…Using plastic pollution as a case study, this article shows how the material characteristics of objects – their density, their size, and the strength of their…”
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On the discrepancy between objects and things: An ecological approach by Rubio, Fernando Domínguez

“…The aim of this article is to develop a different approach to the study of the material world, one that takes seriously the seemingly banal fact that things…”
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Enduring relations: Exploring a paradox of new materialism by Fowler, Chris, Harris, Oliver JT

“…In this article, the authors examine tensions between understandings of material things as either bundles of relations or as things-in-themselves. Rather than…”
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(Re)Tracing pre-pandemic connections: Immaterial materialities of parcel-sending and visits home in Moldovan transnational families by Caracentev, Sanda

“…This article discusses the elusive materiality of staying connected across borders. Objects brought in suitcases during visits home, images of objects sent via…”
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A space age instrument for space voyagers: The personal, professional, and cultural relevance of astronaut chronographs by Levasseur, Jennifer

“…One group of small artifacts from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s collection, astronaut chronographs, consumes more curatorial attention than…”
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Circulation in four walnuts from the Sarah Pike Conger collection by Peterson, Veronica

“…Four walnuts are quietly evocative among hyper-elite objects of women's life in the Late Qing Dynasty at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. This…”
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Stories with the terrain, stories with the ice: Storytelling as a socio-material practice by Kotašková, Eva

“…This article argues for the importance of understanding storytelling as a socio-material practice growing from engagements with the environment and its…”
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The artification of fossils in commercial art spaces: Dinosaurs in a desirescape by Yates, Donna, Peacock, Emily

“…In this article we consider the movement of fossils into art commercial spaces as a process of artification underpinned by the deep object associations that…”
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Social ruination and alternative materialities in a dissonant landscape of modernity: The case of GAP in Halfeti, Turkey by Kuijpers, Anna Elisabeth (Annelies)

“…I examine in this article state-led infrastructural projects as embodiments of modernity and the way their divergent material transformations “play out on the…”
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Visualising the universe: The role of pictures in mediating people's relationship with outer space by Sabatini, Damián

“…The last decade has witnessed an increased interest in outer space among non-expert citizens of London; many astronomical societies have expanded, and…”
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Fragments of affinity: Photographic archives and the material performance of personhood in a zongo community of Ghana by Cassiman, Ann

“…In Accra's migrant neighbourhoods called zongos, personal photo archives are carefully kept in plastic bags or albums, revealing the migratory biographies of…”
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Products of time: Matchboxes as scientific containers and the social lives of archaeological ephemera by Williams, Charlotte M

“…Archaeological work leaves material histories, from archival notes to containers that used to store artifacts. Rarely, however, are these containers preserved…”
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Memory and materiality: The becoming of biographic objects after war and forced displacement by Sonnleitner, Julia

“…The social life of things, in the aftermath of war and forced displacement, is associated with change in significance and value. Against a background of…”
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Desire at play: Tourism, credit cards and the American Express Money Card travel board game by Plukker, Aimée

“…This article analyses the American Express travel board game Money Card (1972) as it highlights the intertwinement between the rise of a distinctive form of…”
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The affective economy and fast fashion: Materiality, embodied learning and developing a sensibility for sustainable clothing by Willett, Joanie, Saunders, Clare, Hackney, Fiona, Hill, Katie

“…Many commentators recognise the need to make clothing more sustainable due to its deleterious environmental and social ramifications. However, it is…”
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Toward an anthropology of plastics by Abrahms-Kavunenko, Saskia

“…Materially plastics are ambivalent. In spite of their often lauded quality of creating seemingly untethered imitations, representations and replacements, they…”
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The circular economy of food waste: Transforming waste to energy through ‘make-up’ work by Holmberg, Tora, Ideland, Malin

“…This article unpacks the neat straightforwardness of the ‘waste regime’ of the circular economy of food waste and its main idea: ‘waste as resource’. It…”
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The perfect subject (postcolonial object studies) by Fowles, Severin

“…This article argues that the late 20th-century tradition of material culture studies, as well as its more recent object-oriented offspring, emerged as a…”
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In defense of materiality: Attending to the sensori-social life of things by Howes, David

“…This article presents a defense of the concept of materiality in the face of Tim Ingold’s critique of the concept as part of his “efforts to restore…”
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