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Algae Mask: Multidisciplinary exploration on material speculation
Technoetic Arts, 2020We live in a time where masks are rewriting wearable protocol. It is critical to understand entwining narratives around masks from the notion of health and safety to a wider discourse between the masked and the mask, including opportunistic capitalism and climatic implications. How about a mask that breathes, that is made by organic raw materials?
Kwan Queenie Li, Michelle Jingmin Lai
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Carbon nitride and other speculative superhard materials
Materials Chemistry and Physics, 1996Abstract In 1984, the author predicted in an unpublished patent disclosure letter at the Diamond Technology Center of Norton Company that C3N4 may be harder than diamond, the hardest material known. According to this disclosure, C3N4 may exist with two phases (α and β) that are isostructural to corresponding phases of Si3N4.
Sung, Chienmin, Sung, Michael
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Material Aware : A Speculative Kitchen Quartet
2020As we go about our lives, seldom do we stop to think meaningfully about the materials that surround us. It is not often that we question the origins of our countertops or flooring, especially in a way that critically assesses how their production and consumption shape our broader lives, spaces, landscapes, politics and rituals.The origin stories of ...
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Material Ecocriticism and Sylvan Agency in Speculative Fiction
2023Material Ecocriticism and Sylvan Agency in Speculative Fiction: The Forests of the World links the examination of fictional forests and arboreal characters of speculative fiction with the literary approach of material ecocriticism and a conceptualization of a sylvan agency.
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Contested Homes in Speculative Futurities in Anglophone Bruneian Fiction
Science Fiction Studies:Speculative futurities that are delineated in Bruneian author Aammton Alias's Anglophone novel Gergasi Wrath (2023) offer a critique of human exploitation of nature, land, and indigenous communities who claim simultaneous ownership of demarcated ...
Hannah Ming Yit Ho
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Anticipating New Materialisms Through Schelling’s Speculative Physics
2019At the turn of the 19th century, theories of nature were fiercely debated. These debates emerged from a wider dispute between formalist theories of matter such as Newton’s and dynamic theories of matter inspired by Spinoza. In the midst of this debate, German philosopher Friedrich Schelling composed a series of texts under the banner of ...
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Deborah Goldgaber, Speculative Grammatology: Deconstruction and New Materialism
Derrida Today, 2022A. Banerjee
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