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1 Objects and materials: an introduction |
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PART I Material qualities |
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2 An interview with artist Helen Barff |
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27 | (13) |
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3 A poor workman blames his tools or how irrigation systems structure human actions |
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40 | (10) |
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4 The material construction of state power: artifacts and the new Rome |
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50 | (11) |
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5 The material politics of solid waste: decentralization and integrated systems |
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61 | (11) |
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6 From stone to god and back again: why we need both materials and materiality |
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72 | (10) |
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7 New materials and their impact on the material world |
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82 | (10) |
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8 Decay, temporality and the politics of conservation: an archaeological approach to material studies |
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92 | (11) |
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PART II Affective objects |
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103 | (80) |
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103 | (6) |
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9 Boxing films: sensation and affect |
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109 | (10) |
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119 | (9) |
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128 | (16) |
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12 Domination and desire: the paradox of Egyptian human remains in museums |
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144 | (12) |
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13 A dream of falling: philosophy and family violence |
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156 | (6) |
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14 Sarah Kofman's father's pen and Bracha Ettinger's mother's spoon: trauma, transmission and the strings of virtuality |
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162 | (11) |
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15 Spectral objects: material links to difficult pasts for adoptive families |
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173 | (10) |
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PART III Unsettling objects |
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183 | (64) |
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183 | (4) |
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16 Haunting in the material of everyday life |
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187 | (10) |
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17 The fetish of connectivity |
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197 | (11) |
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18 Useless objects: commodities, collections and fetishes in the politics of objects |
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208 | (10) |
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19 The unknown objects of object-orientation |
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218 | (10) |
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20 How things can unsettle |
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228 | (10) |
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21 Objects are the root of all philosophy |
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238 | (9) |
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PART IV Interface objects |
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247 | (76) |
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247 | (4) |
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251 | (9) |
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23 The environmental teapot and other loaded household objects: reconnecting the politics of technology, issues and things |
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260 | (12) |
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24 Interfaces: the mediation of things and the distribution of behaviours |
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272 | (10) |
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25 Idempotent, pluripotent, biodigital: objects in the `biological century' |
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282 | (9) |
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26 Real-izing the virtual: digital simulation and the politics of future making |
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291 | (11) |
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27 Money frontiers: the relative location of euros, Turkish lira and gold sovereigns in the Aegean |
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302 | (10) |
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28 Algorithms and the manufacture of financial reality |
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312 | (11) |
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323 | (86) |
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323 | (6) |
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329 | (9) |
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30 Objects made out of action |
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338 | (11) |
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31 Quantitative objects and qualitative things: ethics and HIV biomedical prevention |
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349 | (10) |
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32 Potentialities and possibilities of needs assessment: objects, memory and crystal images |
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359 | (11) |
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33 Digital traces and the `print' of threat: targeting populations in the war on terror |
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370 | (10) |
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34 Intangible objects: how patent law is redefining materiality |
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380 | (11) |
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35 Thinking through place and late actor-network-theory spatialities |
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391 | (8) |
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36 What documents make possible: realizing London's Olympic legacy |
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