These are a handful of texts, videos and resources that were discussed and shared for Reading Surface Matters.
The materials listed here span disciplinary fields and are used as inspiration. URL links are printed and can be copy and pasted into a search engine. Materials are available through an online search or in a library.
This is not an exhaustive or conclusive list and forms the stimuli for exploration rather than definitive conclusions.
Enjoy.
READING SURFACE MATTERS
VIDEO
Agenda: New Materialism and Contemporary Craft. Introduction
Youtube: https://youtu.be/u2hx8kxus8o
Contemporary craft works and New Materialism conference:
Introduction: Agenda: New Materialism and Contemporary Craft. 4. Stephen Knott
Youtube: https://youtu.be/tq37GD_zm5k
Agenda: New Materialism and Contemporary Craft. 5. Marthe Elise Stramrud
Youtube: https://youtu.be/cGh8jSlbSHc
Anthropocene Lecture: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Response Bergit Arends 2018
Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=06iGktOAPBM
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing - A Feminist Approach to the Anthropocene: Earth Stalked by Man. Barnard Center for Research on Women
Youtube: https://youtu.be/ps8J6a7g_BA
Karen Barad, A 3min Introduction to Karen Barad
Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University
Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tno6oG9KRFY
Karen Barad, Talk by Professor Karen Barad with the title: "Troubling Time/s, Undoing the Future." The talk was given June 2, 2016 at The School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark in the Futures Lecture Series.
Youtube: https://youtu.be/dBnOJioYNHU
TEXTS
Footprints through the weather-world-walking, breathing, knowing Tim Ingold. Journal of the Anthropological Institute
Pages: 1,2,3,4,5,6.
ABSTRACT
This essay investigates the relation between becoming knowledgeable, walking along, and the experience of weather. It begins by exploring the meaning of ground. Far from being uniform, homogeneous, and pre‐prepared, the ground is variegated, composite, and undergoes continuous generation. Moreover, it is apprehended in movement rather than from fixed points
Alpine Landscapes in the Anthropocene Alternative Common Futures. Werner Krauss.
Pages 1,2,3,4,5,7,11
ABSTRACT
Alpine landscapes with their melting glaciers and loss of biodiversity represent the epoch of the Anthropocene. In this article, the Anthropocene is understood as a concept that shifts the focus on landscapes as assemblages of entangled human, geological, biological, and meteorological actors that enables a new form of telling stories about human–environment relationships.
Diana Coole & Samantha Frost, Introducing the New Materialisms.
Pages 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,20,22
Book Title: New Materialisms
Chapter Title: Introducing the New Materialisms, Publisher: Duke University Press
Representation of Female Artists in Britain 2018, Freelands Foundation
https://freelandsfoundation.imgix.net/documents/Representation-of-Female-Artists-in-Britain-Research-2019-copy.pdf
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (Terra Ignota): 1 Paperback – 4 Nov. 2019. In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination.
Materialities, Alan Latham, Pages 1 - 11
Cities in Deep Time, Bio-diversity, Metabolic Rift, and the Urban Question, Matthew Gandy
Pages 96-105 | Published online: 15 Mar 2018
Pages, 1,2,5,6,7,8,9,10
ABSTRACT
How should we interpret the relationship between urbanization and the loss of bio-diversity? The discourse of bio-diversity serves as a critical lens through which the accelerating momentum of ‘metabolic rift’ can be explored in relation to contemporary mass extinction.
Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett, 2010
ABSTARCT
In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves.