Tag: Materialist

Free Download The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature by Benjamin Morgan
English | May 1, 2017 | ISBN: 022644211X, 022646220X | True EPUB | 368 pages | 2.7 MB
Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In The Outward Mind, Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an important origin point for current attempts to understand art or beauty using the tools of the sciences.

Free Download Iris van der Tuin Professor in Theory of Cu, "Generational Feminism: New Materialist Introduction to a Generative Approach"
English | ISBN: 0739190172 | 2014 | 178 pages | EPUB | 616 KB
Iris van der Tuin redirects the notion of generational logic in feminism away from its simplistic conception as conflict. Generational logic is said to problematize feminist theory and gender research as it follows a logic of divide and conquer between the old and the young and participates in patriarchal structures and phallologocentrism. Examining the continental philosophies of Bergson and Deleuze and French feminisms of sexual difference, van der Tuin paves the way for a more complex notion of generationality. This new conception of the term views generational cohorts as static measurements that happen in the flow of being. Prioritizing this generative flow gives what is measured its proper place as an effect.

Free Download Stephan Hammel, "Toward a Materialist Conception of Music History "
English | ISBN: 9004537929 | 2024 | 165 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book argues for the relevance, appropriateness, and usefulness of classical historical materialism to the musicological project. It begins by interrogating the history of encounters between music studies and Marxism before offering a framework for understanding style history in terms of changes in the forces and relations of musical production.

Free Download Kerstin Howaldt University of Erfurt, "New Materialist Literary Theory: Critical Conceptions of Literature for the Anthropocene "
English | ISBN: 1666929123 | 2024 | 244 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
This edited collection builds on recent strands in philosophy that promote a critical conceptual return to the material world outside human culture. Through the lens of literary analysis and theory, it conceptualizes the potential of New Materialism as a timely mode of critique toward the current human condition and its effect on literature and the present. Organized around the key New Materialist concepts of entanglement and speculation, the chapters by renowned literary scholars and theorists approach literary texts and theory from onto-epistemological and speculative realist perspectives. Both concepts critically bespeak our precarious relation to matter during the Anthropocene. Entanglement analyzes this human inference with the material environment and its consequences, while speculation makes palpable our cognitive limits in grasping these consequences and our continued obligation to try to do so. Literature emerges as a site where entanglement and speculation, as well as their alignment, are intensively presented and negotiated. In highlighting these connections, the chapters in this collection bring entanglement and speculation (theory) together to form a critical literary theory fit for the Anthropocene.

Free Download Peter Anstey, "Armstrong’s Materialist Theory of Mind"
English | ISBN: 0192843729 | 2022 | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF | 913 KB + 2 MB
A Materialist Theory of Mind (1968) by David Armstrong is one of a handful of texts that began the physicalist revolution in the philosophy of mind. It is perhaps the most influential book in the field of the second half of the twentieth century. In this volume a distinguished international team of philosophers examine what we still owe to Armstrong’s theory, and how to expand it, as well as looking back on how it came about. The first four chapters are historical in orientation, exploring how the book fits into the history of materialism in the twentieth century. The chapters that follow discuss perception, belief, the supposed explanatory gap between the physical and the mental, introspection, conation, causality, and functionalism.

Free Download Marxist Archaeology Today: Historical Materialist Perspectives in Archaeology from America, Europe and the Near East in the 21st Century
by Ianir Milevski
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9004679030 | 352 Pages | True PDF | 9.65 MB

Free Download Slavoj Žižek, "Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist"
English | ISBN: 1350409316 | 2024 | 312 pages | EPUB, PDF | 813 KB + 1526 KB
If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from within?

Free Download Dawn Woolley, "Wearable Objects and Curative Things: Materialist Approaches to the Intersections of Fashion, Art, Health and Medicine "
English | ISBN: 303140016X | 2024 | 361 pages | EPUB, PDF | 14 MB + 12 MB
This book explores the intersections between wearable objects and human health, with particular emphasis on how artists and designers are creatively responding to and rethinking these relations. Addressing a rich range of wearable artefacts, from mobility aids and prosthetics to clothing and accessories to digital health tracking devices, its themes include care and cure; wellness culture and the commoditization of health; and the complex interactions between (human) bodies and (non-human) objects. With a theoretical framework inspired by the work of materialist thinkers including Sherry Turkle, Bruno Latour and Jane Bennett, and bringing the disciplinary fields of fashion studies, art and design practice, and medical and health humanities into dialogue for the first time, this volume draws attention to the complex agencies entangled in the things we wear, and situates fashion and art in relation to broader cultural and historical contexts of health, illness and disability.

Free Download Dawn Woolley, "Wearable Objects and Curative Things: Materialist Approaches to the Intersections of Fashion, Art, Health and Medicine "
English | ISBN: 303140016X | 2024 | 361 pages | EPUB, PDF | 14 MB + 12 MB
This book explores the intersections between wearable objects and human health, with particular emphasis on how artists and designers are creatively responding to and rethinking these relations. Addressing a rich range of wearable artefacts, from mobility aids and prosthetics to clothing and accessories to digital health tracking devices, its themes include care and cure; wellness culture and the commoditization of health; and the complex interactions between (human) bodies and (non-human) objects. With a theoretical framework inspired by the work of materialist thinkers including Sherry Turkle, Bruno Latour and Jane Bennett, and bringing the disciplinary fields of fashion studies, art and design practice, and medical and health humanities into dialogue for the first time, this volume draws attention to the complex agencies entangled in the things we wear, and situates fashion and art in relation to broader cultural and historical contexts of health, illness and disability.