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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
1 Objects and materials: an introduction
PART I Material qualities
Introduction
2 An interview with artist Helen Barff
3 A poor workman blames his tools or how irrigation systems structure human actions
4 The material construction of state power: artifacts and the new Rome
5 The material politics of solid waste: decentralization and integrated systems
6 From stone to god and back again: why we need both materials and materiality
7 New materials and their impact on the material world
8 Decay, temporality and the politics of conservation: an archaeological approach to material studies
PART II Affective objects
Introduction
9 Boxing films: sensation and affect
10 Tactile compositions
11 Bodies and cadavers
12 Domination and desire: the paradox of Egyptian human remains in museums
13 A dream of falling: philosophy and family violence
14 Sarah Kofman's father's pen and Bracha Ettinger's mother's spoon: trauma, transmission and the strings of virtuality
15 Spectral objects: material links to difficult pasts for adoptive families
PART III Unsettling objects
Introduction
16 Haunting in the material of everyday life
17 The fetish of connectivity
18 Useless objects: commodities, collections and fetishes in the politics of objects
19 The unknown objects of object-orientation
20 How things can unsettle
21 Objects are the root of all philosophy
PART IV Interface objects
Introduction
22 True automobility
23 The environmental teapot and other loaded household objects: reconnecting the politics of technology, issues and things
24 Interfaces: the mediation of things and the distribution of behaviours
25 Idempotent, pluripotent, biodigital: objects in the 'biological century'
26 Real-izing the virtual: digital simulation and the politics of future making
27 Money frontiers: the relative location of euros, Turkish lira and gold sovereigns in the Aegean
28 Algorithms and the manufacture of financial reality
PART V Becoming object
Introduction
29 Animal architextures
30 Objects made out of action
31 Quantitative objects and qualitative things: ethics and HIV biomedical prevention
32 Potentialities and possibilities of needs assessment: objects, memory and crystal images
33 Digital traces and the 'print' of threat: targeting populations in the war on terror
34 Intangible objects: how patent law is redefining materiality
35 Thinking through place and late actor-network-theory spatialities
36 What documents make possible: realizing London's Olympic legacy
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