Homo Textor : Weaving As (Technical) Mode of Existence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harlizius-Klück, Ellen, 1958-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

: Mattering Press, 2026.

Contents:

Intro

List of Figures

Contributors

1 · Introducing homo textor

Part I. Challenges of referencing technology, terminology and form

2 · The technical mode of existence of weaving: Introducing histomorphism

3 · Merge, weave, house, trap: First steps towards a reverse palaeoanthropology of identity concepts

4 · Lost in lexicography? Kaîros as concept of order

5 · Woven witness: Philomela, Procne and visualised narratives through textiles

6 · The textile expression gap

Part II. Explorations of patterns as knowledge of order

7 · Modular patterns: A survey of the textile origin of Neolithic design and its calculational implications

8 · Poikilia, geometry and living patterns in the Greek Archaic and Classical mind

9 · Epistemic, social and material ordering through weaving threads

10 · Comparative reflections on Andean weaving as science

Part III. On missing and seizing textile opportunities

11 · String: Rewiring women and electronics

12 · Algorithmic patterns on the live loom

13 · Embodying patterns of textile machinery: A dialogue

14 · Braiding and dancing: Embodied rhythm and the matter of pattern

15 · Untangling knowledge work by maypole weaving with a Penelopean robot swarm.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781912729401