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Nominalized Matter: Agency of Material
International Journal of Architectural Computing, 2014This paper investigates making as a process that brings together diverse materials and combines their flow in anticipation of what might emerge. Ingold calls this approach the textility of making, which gives priority to the formation of materials as a process, in which form is generated through interventions within fields of forces and currents of ...
Daniel Baerlecken +1 more
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Material Agency and 4D Printing
2020Material agency presents a radical shift in design thinking: matter is deemed as the active generator of design. This chapter investigates the potentialities of the synergy between adaptive materials and emergent additive manufacturing techniques.
Grassi, Giulia +2 more
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Recruiting EFNEP Agency Partners: Process and Materials
Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2011The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) was created in 1968 in response to the concerns about hunger in the United States. The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program uses paraprofessional educators who represent the target audience to teach basic nutrition, food safety, food resource management, and physical activity to limited-
Susan S, Baker +5 more
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Infrastructure, Material Culture, and Agency
The Eighteenth Century, 2012"Am I skilled enough for the modern world?" Konstantin Dierks uses this question to focus his broad-ranging investigation of epistolary culture, In My Power: Letter Writing and Communications in Early America (Pennsylvania, 2009). An American and British middle class, he argues, defined itself not through cosmopolitan consumption, but through a ...
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Materiality and nonhuman agency
2019This chapter makes the central argument that by drawing on alternative understandings of materiality and recognising the agency of nonhumans, the normative foundations and conceptual tools of global sustainability governance can be critically examined.
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Agency, materiality and mental illness
Social Theory & Health, 2013Psychiatric discourses and practices have been at the forefront of using and disseminating a voluntary, autonomous and human-focused concept of agency. The following article presents an everyday psychiatric situation as a way of illustrating how non-human agents such as things and material objects influence not only what people do, but also who they ...
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Adjudication Materials on Agency Websites
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017This report examines the dissemination on agency websites of decisions and supporting materials issued and filed in federal adjudicative proceedings. In contrast to notice-and-comment rulemaking, which is supported by a fully digitized platform that allows members of the public to post comments to proposed rules and view materials contained in ...
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A Material Explanation of Agency
2012The definition of action adopted in this study stipulates that actions are intentional bodily movements, understood as exertions. The last chapter indicated that, due to the intrinsic antinomy of action, action explanation can be accounted for by neither a normative nor an expressive model of explanation, due to their insufficient reference to the ...
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Semen Anxiety: Materiality, Agency and the Internet
Anthropology & Medicine, 2007Semen is a potent cultural symbol of masculinity. The social life of semen is poorly understood because of the intensely personal nature of its being. But the Internet has opened up new avenues for people to explore sensitive issues without disclosing their identity.
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