Objects of the Anthropocene
Mapping Material-Emotional Culture from Human Beginnings to the End Times
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13060314 |
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| Authors | P James (0000-0002-8591-4594, Western Sydney University, corresponding author), Timothy Erik Ström (0000-0002-8065-8368) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 145-170 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Emotions History Culture Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2206-7485 • E-ISSN: 2208-522X |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/2208522x-02010190 |
| OpenAlex | W4382404282 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Objects are complicated things, and no less so when they are created by us. We layer created objects with additional emotional meaning. Understanding the complexity of this layering requires much more than tracing the narrative history of an object. This essay is about the objects that we make and appropriate. In particular, the essay suggests that objects need to be understood sensitively both in the context of global human history, and the ontological framing of the various moments of their creation, use, appropriation and reception. The essay folds around four contentions. Objects are central to the narration of social relations and emotional life. Objects, as carriers of meaning, move across different ontological orientations. Objects exist in multiple and ontologically different time frames, sometimes at the same time. And objects mediate our (human) relation to the larger social and natural world, even as they (and we) are part of that world
Aesthetics · Anthropocene · Appropriation · Art · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Framing (construction · Literature · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Object (grammar · Ontology · Sociology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · History of Science and Medicine · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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