Exploring Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond (Paperback)

Philipp Schorch

ISBN 10: 178735749X / ISBN 13: 9781787357495

Editore: UCL Press, London, 2020

Paperback. Exploring Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond provides a new look at the old anthropological concern with materiality and connectivity. It understands materiality, not as defined property of some-thing, nor does it take connectivity as merely a relation between discrete entities. It sees materiality and connectivity as two interrelated modes in which an entity is, or more precisely is becoming, in the world. Throughout the four-year research process that led to this book, the authors approached this question not just from a theoretical perspective; taking the suggestion of 'thinking through things' literally and methodologically seriously, the first two workshops were dedicated to practical, hands-on exercises working with things. From these workshops a series of installations emerged, straddling the boundaries of art and academia. Throughout the pages of this volume, the reader is invited to travel beyond imaginaries of a universe of separate planets united by connections, and to venture with us instead into the thicket of thing~ties in which we live. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781787357495

Riassunto:

Exploring Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond provides a new look at the old anthropological concern with materiality and connectivity. It understands materiality, not as defined property of some-thing, nor does it take connectivity as merely a relation between discrete entities. It sees materiality and connectivity as two interrelated modes in which an entity is, or more precisely &; is becoming, in the world. Throughout the four-year research process that led to this book, the authors approached this question not just from a theoretical perspective; taking the suggestion of 'thinking through things' literally and methodologically seriously, the first two workshops were dedicated to practical, hands-on exercises working with things. From these workshops a series of installations emerged, straddling the boundaries of art and academia. Throughout the pages of this volume, the reader is invited to travel beyond imaginaries of a universe of separate planets united by connections, and to venture with us instead into the thicket of thing~ties in which we live.
 

Informazioni sull'autore:

Philipp Schorch is Professor of Museum Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany, where he leads an ERC project on &;Indigeneities in the 21st Century&;. Martin Saxer leads the ERC project &;Remoteness & Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World&; at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany. Marlen Elders is part of the research project &;Remoteness & Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World&;, currently working on the exhibition &;Highland Flotsam &; Strandgut am Berg&; (highland-flotsam.com) and her first documentary film 'Murghab'.

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Titolo: Exploring Materiality and Connectivity in ...
Casa editrice: UCL Press, London
Data di pubblicazione: 2020
Legatura: Paperback
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