Ellen Sampson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6692235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen Sampson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen |
| FAMILY NAME | Sampson |
| SIGNATURE | SAMPSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3922-2770 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Postmortem life
This paper explores how cellular and digital bodies are formed, critically examining how existence post-death manifests. In doing so, it introduces a new category between life and death: postmortem life. Postmortem life is examined by drawing together nineteenth-century spiritualism that blends bodies, capitalism and technology with photographic preservations of self and the preserved/ decomposing dead body. It critiques the unpredictability and …
On Not Fixing Things
Entanglement, affect and experience
Wearing is fundamental to our experience of cloth and of clothing; though we experience our garments through other senses it is a relationship predicated on touch. It is through the tactile experience of our garments that we come to know them; to comprehend texture, fit and form. Drawing upon both a phenomenological and a psychoanalytic approach to touch and wear this article examines the possibility of wearing as a methodology for practice and p…
The Lens, the Mirror and the Frame
This article explores the material culture of taste, examining the ways that artifacts we look with (the technologies of looking) can mediate and produce our understanding of taste. Taking a phenomenological approach to shopping and luxury it examines how processes of looking closely, of connoisseurship and distinction are bound up with the performance of good taste. Drawing on Bourdieu’s (1984a Bourdieu, P. Distinction: A Social Critique of the …
The Cleaved Garment
This article explores the ways that the self and the garment may become entwined—how through the acts of making and of wearing clothes, the garment and self become cleaved, both to and from one another. The article presents the processes of making and of using garments as both a negotiation with the garment’s materiality and the projection of the user’s fantasy onto their material form—processes through which the maker or user’s agency may become…
The Cleaved Garment
This article explores the ways that the self and the garment may become entwined—how through the acts of making and of wearing clothes, the garment and self become cleaved, both to and from one another. The article presents the processes of making and of using garments as both a negotiation with the garment’s materiality and the projection of the user’s fantasy onto their material form—processes through which the maker or user’s agency may become…
Entanglement, affect and experience
Wearing is fundamental to our experience of cloth and of clothing; though we experience our garments through other senses it is a relationship predicated on touch. It is through the tactile experience of our garments that we come to know them; to comprehend texture, fit and form. Drawing upon both a phenomenological and a psychoanalytic approach to touch and wear this article examines the possibility of wearing as a methodology for practice and p…
The Cleaved Garment
This article explores the ways that the self and the garment may become entwined—how through the acts of making and of wearing clothes, the garment and self become cleaved, both to and from one another. The article presents the processes of making and of using garments as both a negotiation with the garment’s materiality and the projection of the user’s fantasy onto their material form—processes through which the maker or user’s agency may become…
Entanglement, affect and experience
Wearing is fundamental to our experience of cloth and of clothing; though we experience our garments through other senses it is a relationship predicated on touch. It is through the tactile experience of our garments that we come to know them; to comprehend texture, fit and form. Drawing upon both a phenomenological and a psychoanalytic approach to touch and wear this article examines the possibility of wearing as a methodology for practice and p…
The Lens, the Mirror and the Frame
This article explores the material culture of taste, examining the ways that artifacts we look with (the technologies of looking) can mediate and produce our understanding of taste. Taking a phenomenological approach to shopping and luxury it examines how processes of looking closely, of connoisseurship and distinction are bound up with the performance of good taste. Drawing on Bourdieu’s (1984a Bourdieu, P. Distinction: A Social Critique of the …
On Not Fixing Things
Postmortem life
This paper explores how cellular and digital bodies are formed, critically examining how existence post-death manifests. In doing so, it introduces a new category between life and death: postmortem life. Postmortem life is examined by drawing together nineteenth-century spiritualism that blends bodies, capitalism and technology with photographic preservations of self and the preserved/ decomposing dead body. It critiques the unpredictability and …
Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · Clothing (2 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Affect (linguistics (1 works)