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An Archaeology of the Immaterial
An Archaeology of the Immaterial - Front Cover -- An Archaeology of the Immaterial -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The immaterial -- Producing the immaterial -- Attachments -- Dualisms -- Realism -- Acknowledgement -...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
: Taylor and Francis
, 2015
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=2194955 |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
An Archaeology of the Immaterial |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | An Archaeology of the Immaterial - Front Cover -- An Archaeology of the Immaterial -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The immaterial -- Producing the immaterial -- Attachments -- Dualisms -- Realism -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Immateriality and the ascetic object in early Christianity -- Producing the immaterial -- Dualisms -- Attachments -- Incorrigibility -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Christian ascetic object before the Reformation -- The late medieval -- Producing the immaterial -- Dualism -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Reformation and the problem of visibility and proximity -- Producing the immaterial -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Leninism, immateriality and modernity -- Soviet immateriality -- Soviet objectlessness -- Post-war objectlessness -- Twenty-first-century immateriality -- Early twenty-first-century objectlessness, digitization, immateriality and transcendence -- Three-dimensional printing and 'objectlessness' -- The 'Liberator' gun -- Killing images and images that kill -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. An Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture studies: the active rejection of the material world. Buchli argues that this is evident in a number of cultural projects, including anti-consumerism and asceticism, as well as other attempts to transcend material circumstances. Exploring the cultural work which can be achieved when the material is rejected, and the social effects of these 'dematerialisations', this book situates the way some people disengage from the world as a specific kind of physical engagement which has profound implications for our understanding of personhood and materiality. Using case studies which range widely in time over Western societies and the technologies of materialising the immaterial, from icons to the scanning tunnelling microscope and 3-D printing, Buchli addresses the significance of immateriality for our own economics, cultural perceptions, and emerging forms of social inclusion and exclusion. An Archaeology of the Immaterial is thus an important and innovative contribution to material cultural studies which demonstrates that the making of the immaterial is, like the making of the material, a profoundly powerful operation which works to exert social control and delineate the borders of the imaginable and the enfranchised |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (203 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781317502135 |
