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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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Feminism and Finitude

Technophany, 2023
This essay examines the ideological parallels between the transhuman pursuit for immortality and xenofeminism’s call for biological manipulation. Paying particular attention to the patriarchal legacy of technoscience, I identify eugenic principles ...
Alessandra Mularoni
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A Relational Ecology of Photographic Practices [PDF]

Avant, 2017
This paper proposes a relational history of media artifacts, which decentralizes the dominance of the photographer or filmmaker as the absolute author of the work.
Jacqui Knight
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The (Processed) Vegetal Body and Blood of the Markan Messiah

Religions, 2018
Although the Eucharist is attested four times (Matthew 26:26⁻29; Mark 14:22⁻25; Luke 22:15⁻20; 1 Corinthians 11:23⁻26) in the New Testament, only two (Luke and 1 Corinthians) out of the four instances bespeak of commemorating this
Dong Hyeon Jeong
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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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Surveillance Entanglements: Digital Data Flows and Ageing Bodies in Motion in the Danish Welfare State

Anthropology & Aging, 2019
In recent years, new forms of self-tracking technologies, advanced algorithms and quantified measurements have increasingly become part of interventions targeting the physical improvement of elderly bodies.
Nete Schwennesen
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Marine Entanglements: Tropical Materialism and Hydrographic Imaginary in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022
In the epoch of the Anthropocene the environment is predominantly characterised by innumerable entanglements of matter. According to materialist theorist Jane Bennett, matter acts as a ‘distributive agency’ that intertwines itself with a “multiplicity ...
Sanchar Sarkar, Swarnalatha Rangarajan
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Metaphysics or Metaphors for the Anthropocene? Scientific Naturalism and the Agency of Things

Open Philosophy, 2018
In this paper, I provide the outlines of an alternative metaphilosophical orientation for Continental philosophy, namely, a form of scientific naturalism that has proximate roots in the work of Bachelard and Althusser.
Gamez Patrick
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The Influence of Life Events on Young Consumers’ Compulsive Shopping Tendencies [PDF]

Journal of Emerging Trends in Marketing and Management, 2023
This research aims to uncover which life events (if any) might increase young consumers’ tendencies toward compulsive shopping. Existing literature suggests that stressful events can trigger addictive behaviors, including compulsive buying, with ...
Natasha Nagel, Monica M. Popa Sârghie
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Le parti pris des choses : sur quelques apories onto-épistémiques du New Materialism

Socio-anthropologie
The 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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