Objects and Materials : A Routledge Companion (Hardcover)

1. Objects and Materials: An Introduction by Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox  Part I: Material Qualities  Part I Introduction by Gillian Evans and Eleanor Conlin Casella  2. An Interview with Artist Helen Barff by Gillian Evans  3. A Poor Workman Blames His Tools or How Irrigation Systems Structure Human Actions by Maurits W. Ertsen  4. The Material Construction of State Power: Artifacts and the New Rome by Chandra Mukerji  5. The Material Politics of Solid Waste: Decentralization and Integrated Systems by Penny Harvey  6. From Stone to God and Back Again: Why We Need Both Materials and Materiality by Soumhya Venkatesan  7. New Materials and Their Impact on the Material World by Susanne Kuchler and Peter Oakley  8. Decay, Temporality and the Politics of Conservation: An Archaeological Approach to Material Studies by Eleanor Conlin Casella and Karina Croucher  Part II: Affective Objects  Part II Introduction by Eleanor Conlin Casella and Kath Woodward  9. Boxing Films: Sensation and Affect by Kath Woodward  10. Tactile Compositions by Kathleen Stewart  11. Bodies and Cadavers by Maryon McDonald  12. Domination and Desire: The Paradox of Egyptian Human Remains in Museums by Karen Exell  13. A Dream of Falling: Philosophy and Family Violence by Patricia Ticineto Clough  14. Sarah Kofman’s Father’s Pen and Bracha Ettinger’s Mother’s Spoon: Trauma, Transmission and the Strings of Virtuality by Griselda Pollock  15. Spectral Objects: Material Links to Difficult Pasts for Adoptive Families by Steven D. Brown, Paula Reavey and Helen Brookfield  Part III: Unsettling Objects  Part III Introduction by Elizabeth Silva  16. Haunting in the Material of Everyday Life by Elizabeth Silva  17. The Fetish of Connectivity by Morten Axel Pedersen  18. Useless Objects: Commodities, Collections and Fetishes in the Politics of Objects by Nicholas Thoburn  19. The Unknown Objects of Object-Orientation by Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey  20. How Things Can Unsettle by Martin Holbraad  21. Objects Are the Root of All Philosophy by Graham Harman  Part IV: Interface Objects  Part IV Introduction by Nicholas Thoburn  22. True Automobility by Tim Dant  23. The Environmental Teapot and Other Loaded Household Objects: Re-connecting the Politics of Technology, Issues and Things by Noortje Marres  24. Interfaces: The Mediation of Things and the Distribution of Behaviours by Celia Lury  25. Idempotent, Pluripotent, Biodigital: Objects in the ‘Biological Century’ by Adrian Mackenzie  26. Real-ising the Virtual: Digital Simulation and the Politics of Future Making by Hannah Knox  27. Money Frontiers: The Relative Location of Euros, Turkish Lira and Gold Sovereigns in the Aegean by Sarah Green  28. Algorithms and the Manufacture of Financial Reality by Marc Lenglet  Part V: Becoming Object  Part V Introduction by Chris McLean and Gillian Evans  29. Animal Architextures by John Law and Marianne Elisabeth Lien  30. Objects Made Out of Action by Matei Candea  31. Quantitative Objects and Qualitative Things: Ethics and HIV Biomedical Prevention by Mike Michael and Marsha Rosengarten  32. Potentialities and Possibilities of Needs Assessment: Objects, Memory and Crystal Images by Chris McLean  33. Digital Traces and the ‘Print’ of Threat: Targeting Populations in the War on Terror by Alexandra Hall and Jonathan Mendel  34. Intangible Objects: How Patent Law is Redefining Materiality by Mario Biagioli  35. Thinking through Place and Late ANT Spatialities by Robert Oppenheim  36. What Documents Make Possible: Realising London’s Olympic Legacy by Gillian Evans