Objects and materials : a Routledge companion / edited by Penny Harvey, Eleanor Conlin Casella, Gillian Evans, Hannah Knox, Christine McLean, Elizabeth B. Silva, Nicholas Thoburn and Kath Woodward.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Objects and Materials: An Introduction by Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox Part I: Material Qualities Part I Introduction by Gillian Evans and Eleanor Conlin Casella 2. An Interview with Artist Helen Barff by Gillian Evans 3. A Poor Workman Blames His Tools or How Irrigation Systems Structure Human Actions by Maurits W. Ertsen 4. The Material Construction of State Power: Artifacts and the New Rome by Chandra Mukerji 5. The Material Politics of Solid Waste: Decentralization and Integrated Systems by Penny Harvey 6. From Stone to God and Back Again: Why We Need Both Materials and Materiality by Soumhya Venkatesan 7. New Materials and Their Impact on the Material World by Susanne Küchler and Peter Oakley 8. Decay, Temporality and the Politics of Conservation: An Archaeological Approach to Material Studies by Eleanor Conlin Casella and Karina Croucher Part II: Affective Objects Part II Introduction by Eleanor Conlin Casella and Kath Woodward 9. Boxing Films: Sensation and Affect by Kath Woodward 10. Tactile Compositions by Kathleen Stewart 11. Bodies and Cadavers by Maryon McDonald 12. Domination and Desire: The Paradox of Egyptian Human Remains in Museums by Karen Exell 13. A Dream of Falling: Philosophy and Family Violence by Patricia Ticineto Clough 14. Sarah Kofman’s Father’s Pen and Bracha Ettinger’s Mother’s Spoon: Trauma, Transmission and the Strings of Virtuality by Griselda Pollock 15. Spectral Objects: Material Links to Difficult Pasts for Adoptive Families by Steven D. Brown, Paula Reavey and Helen Brookfield Part III: Unsettling Objects Part III Introduction by Elizabeth Silva 16. Haunting in the Material of Everyday Life by Elizabeth Silva 17. The Fetish of Connectivity by Morten Axel Pedersen 18. Useless Objects: Commodities, Collections and Fetishes in the Politics of Objects by Nicholas Thoburn 19. The Unknown Objects of Object-Orientation by Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey 20. How Things Can Unsettle by Martin Holbraad 21. Objects Are the Root of All Philosophy by Graham Harman Part IV: Interface Objects Part IV Introduction by Nicholas Thoburn 22. True Automobility by Tim Dant 23. The Environmental Teapot and Other Loaded Household Objects: Re-connecting the Politics of Technology, Issues and Things by Noortje Marres 24. Interfaces: The Mediation of Things and the Distribution of Behaviours by Celia Lury 25. Idempotent, Pluripotent, Biodigital: Objects in the ‘Biological Century’ by Adrian Mackenzie 26. Real-ising the Virtual: Digital Simulation and the Politics of Future Making by Hannah Knox 27. Money Frontiers: The Relative Location of Euros, Turkish Lira and Gold Sovereigns in the Aegean by Sarah Green 28. Algorithms and the Manufacture of Financial Reality by Marc Lenglet Part V: Becoming Object Part V Introduction by Chris McLean and Gillian Evans 29. Animal Architextures by John Law and Marianne Elisabeth Lien 30. Objects Made Out of Action by Matei Candea 31. Quantitative Objects and Qualitative Things: Ethics and HIV Biomedical Prevention by Mike Michael and Marsha Rosengarten 32. Potentialities and Possibilities of Needs Assessment: Objects, Memory and Crystal Images by Chris McLean 33. Digital Traces and the ‘Print’ of Threat: Targeting Populations in the War on Terror by Alexandra Hall and Jonathan Mendel 34. Intangible Objects: How Patent Law is Redefining Materiality by Mario Biagioli 35. Thinking through Place and Late ANT Spatialities by Robert Oppenheim 36. What Documents Make Possible: Realising London’s Olympic Legacy by Gillian Evans