Free Download Zuzanna Sarnecka, "The Materiality of Terracotta Sculpture in Early Modern Europe "
English | ISBN: 1032355700 | 2023 | 276 pages | PDF | 22 MB
Through meticulously researched case studies, this book explores the materiality of terracotta sculpture in early modern Europe.
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Free Download Marco Caracciolo, "Contemporary Narrative and the Spectrum of Materiality "
English | ISBN: 3111141497 | 2023 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 54 MB
How do physical things differ from non-things-human subjects, animals, abstract ideas, or processes? Those questions, which are as old as philosophy itself, have inspired contemporary debates in ecocriticism, thing theory, and in the interdisciplinary field of new materialism. This book argues that contemporary narrative is well placed to map out and work through the spectrum of the material and the philosophical questions that underlie it. This is because narrative does not resolve the tensions at the heart of conceptions of materiality but rather reframes them, envisioning their implications and exploring their relevance to concrete contexts of human interaction. This monograph is structured around a number of novels, experimental fiction, films, and video games that imagine the inherent agency of things but also interrogate the affective and ethical significance of materiality in human terms. Its aim is to demonstrate the power of formal narrative analysis to foster conceptually and ethically sophisticated ways of thinking about thingness in times of ecological crisis-that is, times in which "stuff" can no longer be taken for granted.
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Free Download Fabio Rambelli, "Buddhist Materiality: A Cultural History of Objects in Japanese Buddhism"
English | 2007 | pages: 408 | ISBN: 0804756821 | PDF | 78,1 mb
Throughout its history, Buddhism has developed a sophisticated philosophy of materiality, addressing the status of material objects and their role in the quest for salvation. This is an innovative book that addresses the ways in which Buddhism has conceived of, and dealt with, material objects ranging from the environment to everyday tools, ritual implements, icons, and sacred texts. Contrary to received assumptions, careful reading of original sources and study of ritual practices show that in Buddhism the realm of materiality is not simply an obstacle for spiritual pursuits but also a space for interplay in which human beings can give shape and expression to their deepest religious and spiritual ideas.
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Free Download Laurie Taylor, "The Materiality of Exhibition Photography in the Modernist Era: Form, Content, Consequence"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367427699 | PDF | pages: 150 | 3.2 mb
This book challenges the status quo of the materiality of exhibited photographs, by considering examples from the early to mid-twentieth century, when photography's place in the museum was not only continually questioned but also continually redefined.
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Free Download Christopher R. Henke, "Repairing Infrastructures: The Maintenance of Materiality and Power"
English | ISBN: 0262539705 | 2020 | 216 pages | PDF | 6 MB
An investigation of the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life.
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Bernd Herzogenrath, "Media Matter: The Materiality of Media, Matter as Medium"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1501320106, 1628923830 | 328 pages | PDF | 2.6 MB
Launching Bloomsbury's Thinking Media series, Media Matter introduces readers to the nascent field of media-philosophy. Contributors urge readers to re-adjust their ideas of Media Studies, by extending the understanding of "medium" to include a concept of materiality that also includes "non-human" transmitters (elements such as water, earth, fire, air) and also by understanding media not only in the context of cultural or discursive systems or apparatuses, relays, transistors, hardware or "discourse networks," but more inclusively, in terms of a "media ecology."
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Media, Materiality and Memory: Grounding the Groove By Elodie A. Roy
2015 | 234 Pages | ISBN: 1472459482 | PDF | 4 MB
Media, Materiality and Memory: Grounding the Groove examines the entwinement of material music objects, technology and memory in relation to a range of independent record labels, including Sarah Records, Ghost Box and Finders Keepers. Moving from Edison's phonograph to digital music files, from record collections to online archives, Roy argues that materiality plays a crucial role in constructing and understanding the territory of recorded sound. How do musical objects 'write' cultural narratives? How can we unearth and reactivate past histories by looking at yesterday's media formats? What is the nature, and fate, of the physical archive in an increasingly dematerialized world? In what ways do physical and digital musical objects coexist and intersect? With its innovative theoretical approach, the book explores the implications of materialization in the fashioning of a musical world and its cultural transmission. A substantial contribution to the field of music and material culture studies, Media, Materiality and Memory also provides a nuanced and timely reflection on nostalgia and forgetting in the digital age.
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Franck Billé, Debbora Battaglia, "Voluminous States: Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Territorial Imagination"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1478008423, 1478007915 | PDF | pages: 300 | 22.2 mb
From the Arctic to the South China Sea, states are vying to secure sovereign rights over vast maritime stretches, undersea continental plates, shifting ice flows, airspace, and the subsoil. Conceiving of sovereign space as volume rather than area, the contributors to Voluminous States explore how such a conception reveals and underscores the three-dimensional nature of modern territorial governance. In case studies ranging from the United States, Europe, and the Himalayas to Hong Kong, Korea, and Bangladesh, the contributors outline how states are using airspace surveillance, maritime patrols, and subterranean monitoring to gain and exercise sovereignty over three-dimensional space. Whether examining how militaries are digging tunnels to create new theaters of operations, the impacts of climate change on borders, or the relation between borders and nonhuman ecologies, they demonstrate that a three-dimensional approach to studying borders is imperative for gaining a fuller understanding of sovereignty.
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Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World
by Gerritsen, Anne;Cleetus, Burton;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 135019588X | 321 pages | True PDF EPUB | 23.46 MB
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