By Adam Drazin, Susanne Küchler
The Social lifetime of Materials
Studies in fabrics and Society
Editor(s): Adam Drazin, Susanne Küchler
Media of The Social lifetime of Materials
Edition: 1st, 2015
Extent: 304
ISBN: 9781472592668
Imprint: Bloomsbury educational (UK)
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Plastic beads are here also disturbing in that, through use of plastic, the material itself comes to the fore. Rather than being beads, these objects suddenly comprise evidently of ‘stuff’. Different materials will lead social research in very different directions. If one material leads to an ethnography of identity, another leads to religion, and yet another to power. Filipe Calvão’s discussion of diamond-trading rooms in Angola means consideration of global macro-issues, the ‘imagined representations of the global market’, witnessed within small rooms.
In Chapter 12, we explore an example of a legislative and disciplinary regime that responds to an emergent materials world within the United Kingdom. Sustainability is a powerful and undeniable modern imperative, at the forefront of many peoples’ concerns about materials. Whatever one thinks sustainability means, it has become a key measure to evaluate the world we live in. Sarah Wilkes’ critical commentary on cultures of sustainability and regulation demands that we consider not only ‘materials innovation’, but what happens next?
One might think that Heidegger’s (1978) discussion would be useful here of the difference between a tool that is present-at-hand, lying on a table, and ready-to-hand when it is being used. As the tool is taken up, a perceptual shift occurs where the tool comes to be unconsciously a part of the embodied craftsperson. Heidegger is illustrating a perceptual shift by reference to tools, hence rendering the material world as tool-like. Hahn and Soentgen (2011) consider this kind of appropriation as important to appreciating what materials do in society.