Discussing new materialism : methodological implications for the study of materialisties / Ulrike Tikvah Kissmann, Joost van Loon, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Materialism.

Materialism--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

x, 210 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Springer VS, [2019]

Summary:

The essays in this volume discuss the various approaches to New materialism in sociology and philosophy. They raise the questions of what New materialism consists of and whether it in fact should be considered a radical change in social theory. Are the ideas of a "material turn", as the theory is formulated and in its assumptions, foreshadowed by the classical philosophies of Spinoza and Tarde? Do these new approaches bring substantially new perspectives to social theory? A further goal of these essays is to formulate the methodological and methodical consequences for its empirical implementation. What conditions must an ethnography of things fulfill if it is to be sufficient? Which participant objects and bodies do the approaches of the various social theories and methodologies include or exclude?

Contents:

Part I. Introduction

New materialism and its methodological consequences: an introduction / Ulrike Tikvah Kissmann and Joost van Loon

Part II. Postphenomenology and actor-network-theory

What makes sensation of a sentient thing possible: the concept of time in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty / Ulrike Tikvah Kissmann

Historical materialism and actor-network-theory / Joost van Loon

Part III. Cyborg and agential realism

The cyborg, its friends and feminist theories of materiality / Anne-Jorunn Berg

"Cutting together/apart" - impulses from Karen Barad's feminist materialism for a relational sociology / Susanne Völker

Part IV. Praxeology and communicative constructivism

Rethinking bodies and objects in social interaction: a multimodal and multisensorial approach to tasting / Lorenza Mondada

Materiality, meaning, social practices: remarks on new materialism / Robert Schmidt

New materialism? A view from sociology of knowledge / Reiner Keller

Part V. Algorithmic culture and doing science

From hardware to software to runtime: the politics of (at least) three digital materialities / Jan-Hendrik Passoth

Of rabbits and men, or: how to study innovation in nanomedicine / Wiebke Schär.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

3658222999

9783658222994

OCLC:

1034620965