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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Paperback, limited English-language edition of 500 copies, 369 pages, illustrated, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. -- This anthology was produced as part of Alternativa 2010-2012, a programme of events and publications supporting a contemporary visual arts festival hosted by the Wyspa Institute of Art in the former Gdansk Shipyard. A companion reader to the Materiality exhibition, it brings together curatorial essays and contributions addressing the status of objects, materials and physical processes in contemporary thought. The book assembles theoretical and critical texts that collectively argue for a fundamental reorientation in how we think about the physical world. The overarching question running through the volume is deceptively simple: what do materials do? Not what they are, nor what we make of them, but what they themselves enact, perform, and produce - in social life, in political structures, in bodies, in buildings, and in the accumulated waste of late capitalist consumption. Four curatorial statements frame the collection, each approaching the question from a different angle - living systems, daily practice, performativity and emotional attachment to things. The texts that follow move from philosophical arguments about the hidden power of ordinary objects, through the ways materials shape architecture, industrial labour and the human body, to the darker territory of waste, excess and what happens when production outstrips any possible use. The final section takes its title from Guy Debord's 1978 film In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni, a Latin palindrome traditionally translated as 'we go round and round in the night and are consumed by fire' and said to describe the behaviour of moths circling a flame - a fitting image for the restless cycles of consumption and entropy that close the volume. What holds these threads together is a refusal to treat the physical world as merely raw stuff awaiting human purpose. Instead, the contributors insist that materials push back: they resist, decay, accumulate and force consequences that no designer or policy-maker intended. The setting of the exhibition - a disused shipyard hall where industrial ruin, ecological change and artistic work overlap - gave this argument a concrete, visible anchor. Drawing on anthropology, architecture, political theory and art criticism, the volume remains a valuable entry point into debates around new materialism, object-oriented thinking and the curatorial challenges of exhibiting ideas about the physical world itself. -- Contents: Introduction: Something in the Air / Krzysztof Gutfranski; -- Curatorial Statements -- A Living Materiality / Leire Vergara; Materiality and the Practise of Everyday Life / Aneta Szylak; Material Performativity / Inês Moreira; Materiality, a Love Story / Arne Hendriks; -- Part I. The Voice of Things -- The Berlin Key or How to Do Words with Things / Bruno Latour; The Thing Itself / Arjun Appadurai; Materials Against Materiality Tim Ingold; -- Part II. Materiality -- Manifesto of Emotional Architecture / Mathias Goeritz; Wyspa from the Outside / Elizabeth Grosz talks to Ewa Opalka; Obiectum Sexuals / Amy March; Aleksei Gastev and the Metallization of the Revolutionary Body / Rolf Hellebust; The Most Dangerous Film in the World / Susan Schuppli; -- Part III. In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni -- Consumption / David Graeber; Junkspace / Rem Koolhaas.…