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Inextinguishable Fibres: Demolition and the Vital Materialisms of Asbestos [PDF]
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2010 This paper forwards a performative reading of asbestos in economies of disposal. It argues that materials need to be thought through transformative states, not just stable states, and that materials’ performativity varies according to material states.
Gregson, N., Watkins, H., Calestani, M.
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How Does Personality Trait Affect Online Financial Service Use of College Students in China? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Online financial service is an essential part of consumption services provided by companies in modern society. It is vital to figure out the underlying mechanisms that influence online financial service use of college students in China, which is seldom ...
Xiuyuan Gong, Xiaofeng Zheng, Qinqin Li
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Do we really need financial literacy to access the behavioral dynamics of generation Z? A case of Oman [PDF]
HeliyonThe ability to manage money has been identified as a vital talent. In this context, financial literacy has a role to play. There are significant gaps, though, such as the financial connection to human behavior. The purpose of this study is to look at the
Mohammad Shahfaraz Khan +3 more
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How active and passive social media use affects impulse buying in Chinese college students? The roles of emotional responses, gender, materialism and self-control [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Social media plays a vital role in consumers’ purchasing decision making. There are still gaps in existing research on the relationship between divided dimensions of social media use and impulse buying, as well as the mediating and moderating effects ...
Si Chen, Kuiyun Zhi, Yongjin Chen
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A Vital Challenge to Materialism [PDF]
Philosophy, 2016 AbstractLife poses a threat to materialism. To understand the phenomena of animate nature, we make use of a teleological form of explanation that is peculiar to biology, of explanations in terms of what I call the ‘vital categories’ – and this holds even for accounts of underlying physico-chemical ‘mechanisms’.
Mulder, J.M.
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Vital Materialism and the Problem of Ethics in the Radical Enlightenment [PDF]
Philosophica, 2013 From Hegel to Engels, Sartre and Ruyer (Ruyer, Revue Philosophique 116(7–8):28–49, 1933), to name only a few, materialism is viewed as a necropolis, or the metaphysics befitting such an abode; many speak of matter’s crudeness, bruteness, coldness or stupidity.
Wolfe, Charles T.
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Le parti pris des choses : sur quelques apories onto-épistémiques du New Materialism
Socio-anthropologieThe theoretical movement known as New Materialism, which emerged in the early 2000s, saw not only the return of ontology, but also the affirmation of a materialism in which all oppositions and contradictions would dissolve.
Charles Wolfe
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Digital Animism: Towards a New Materialism
Religions, 2023 With the advent of ‘the virtual world,’ we have naturally gauged the ‘reality’ of the virtual in terms of how close it comes to empirical experience. However, the common association of the virtual to simulation depends on a representational dualism that ...
Victor J. Krebs
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Perspektivenwechsel der Politischen Ökologie – Back to the roots! [PDF]
Geographica Helvetica, 2022 Grown from radical geography roots, political ecology (PE) emerged half a century ago and is now a diverse, scientifically mature field. In German speaking countries, geographical PE was introduced with a time delay of twenty years.
H. J. Geist
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Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2022 This article considers the performative aspects of environmental narratives, based on the example of the cultural image of the plastic bag. In contemporary culture, disposable plastic bags have become a symbol of the collective guilt related to the role ...
Sylwia Mieczkowska
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