The Entanglements of Humans and Things
A Long-Term View
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4841585 |
|---|---|
| Authors | I Hodder (0000-0002-7018-586X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-36 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2014.0005 |
| OpenAlex | W2099992751 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 95 |
| References cited | 25 |
This article retreats from an entirely relational treatment of matter, to rediscover the object nature of things. The thingly relations of things include object relations; materials provide affordances or potentialities to humans. The brute matter of things has effects on us that go beyond social networks. We cannot reduce things solely to the relational, to a semiotics of things. To do so undermines the power of things to entrap, and particularly to trap the more vulnerable. In the modern world, we have come to see that we need to use things sustainably and responsibly, to care for things. But this care and sustainability themselves too frequently involve further management and control of animals, plants, landscapes, resources, and humans. A long-term archaeological perspective shows that our attempts to fix things by finding technological solutions have led to an exponential increase in material entanglements. It is in our nature as a species to try and fix our problems now by fiddling and fixing, but such responses may have their limits
Aesthetics · Affordance · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Human–computer interaction · Object (grammar · Perspective (graphical · Power (physics · Sociology · Sustainability · Term (time · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Artificial Intelligence · Ecology · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 95 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,92 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 91 |