Exploring Materiality And Connectivity In Anthropology And Beyond Philipp Schorch Martin Saxer Marlen Elders by Philipp Schorch; Martin Saxer; Marlen Elders 9781787357488, 9781787357495, 9781787357501, 9781787357518, 9781787357525, 1787357481, 178735749X, 1787357503, 1787357511 instant download after payment.

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.