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Toward a New Culture of the Material.

Was wäre, wenn wir das multistabile, ambivalente und anpassungsfähige Verhalten aktiver Materie als offenen Gestaltungsspielraum verstehen? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes erkunden das formbildende Potenzial des Prozessua­len und Unverfügbaren - von mikrobi­ellem Co­Design über morphogeneti­sche Experime...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: De Gruyter 2024.
Subjects:
Interdisziplinäre Forschung.
Kulturgeschichte.
Material.
Wissenschaftstheorie.
ART / General.
Material
Interdisziplinäre Forschung
Wissenschaftstheorie
Kulturgeschichte
cultural history, history of science
digital
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Toward a New Culture of the Material
  • Shape and Sensitivity
  • Matters of Vagueness and Articulation
  • Atmosphere in the Making: Airborne Metabolic Pathways
  • "The Dance of the Knife." Ethnographic Reflections on Neurosurgical Experience and Agential Materialism
  • Collaborative Practices on Active Matters
  • PLEKTONIK: Plasticity and Structural Textile
  • The Role of Filtering in Design Processes: Creating Stabilities in Volatile Contexts by Tentative Prototyping
  • On Material Grammar: Learning from and Designing with Unstable Behavior in Thin Sheet Materials
  • Points in Making
  • Growing Form
  • Buckling, Wrinkling, and Folding: Microstructure, Active Matter Behavior, and Geometric Modeling of Bacterial Biofilms
  • Entangled Scales: Structures and Environments of Cellulose Biofilms
  • Rethinking Growth: A Bio-Inspired Take on Creative Processes
  • Indeterminacy, Ambiguity, and Liveliness
  • The In-Between as a Place of Poiësis: Photography of Ambivalence in a Photobook
  • Transcending Form: On the Potential of Ambiguous Imagery
  • Surface Tension: Venice and the Undercurrents of Mediation
  • Material Memories
  • Rubber Frictions: Material Legacies beyond the 1851 Great Exhibition
  • Crafting Time: Speculative Archaeology and Inorganic Becoming
  • Passivity Matters! Transience and Conservation Practices: Examples from the Eighteenth Century to Today
  • Material Energies
  • The Material Metaphysics of Felt
  • Matters of Free Energy and a Tesseract
  • Material Energy Information: Toward an Analog Code
  • Authors' Biographies
  • Image Credits