ISBN:
9780415840491
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (203 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version An Archaeology of the Immaterial
DDC:
306.4/6071
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
An Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture studies: the active rejection of the material world. Buchli argues that this is evident in a number of cultural projects, including anti-consumerism and asceticism, as well as other attempts to transcend material circumstances. Exploring the cultural work which can be achieved when the material is rejected, and the social effects of these 'dematerialisations', this book situates the way some people disengage from the world as a specific kind of physical engagement which has profound
Description / Table of Contents:
An Archaeology of the Immaterial - Front Cover; An Archaeology of the Immaterial ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; The immaterial ; Producing the immaterial ; Attachments ; Dualisms ; Realism ; Acknowledgement; Notes; Chapter 2: Immateriality and the ascetic object in early Christianity; Producing the immaterial ; Dualisms ; Attachments ; Incorrigibility ; Conclusion ; Acknowledgement; Notes ; Chapter 3: The Christian ascetic object before the Reformation; The late medieval ; Producing the immaterial ; Dualism ; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
AcknowledgementNotes ; Chapter 4: The Reformation and the problem of visibility and proximity; Producing the immaterial ; Conclusion ; Acknowledgement; Notes ; Chapter 5: Leninism, immateriality and modernity; Soviet immateriality ; Soviet objectlessness ; Post-war objectlessness ; Twenty-first-century immateriality ; Early twenty-first-century objectlessness, digitization, immateriality and transcendence ; Three-dimensional printing and 'objectlessness' ; The 'Liberator' gun ; Killing images and images that kill ; Acknowledgement; Notes ; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
