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- Boxes: A Field Guide
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- 2020
- Published by: Mattering Press
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A book full of boxes. A box in itself. An unboxing. This book explores boxes in their broadest sense and size. It invites us to step into the field, unravel how and why things are contained and how it might be otherwise. By turning the focus of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to boxing practices, this collation of essays examines boxes as world-making devices. Gathered in the format of a field guide, it offers an introduction to ways of ordering the world, unpacking their boxed-up, largely invisible politics and epistemics. Performatively, pushing against conventional uses of academic books, this volume is about rethinking taken-for-granted formats and infrastructures of scholarly ordering - thinking, writing, reading. It diverges from encyclopedic logics and representative overviews of boxing practices and the architectural organization of monographs and edited volumes through a single, overarching argument. This book asks its users to leave well-trodden paths of linear and comprehensive reading and invites them to read sideways, creating their own orders through associations and relating. Thus, this book is best understood as an intervention, a beginning, an open box, a slim volume that needs expansion and further experiments with ordering by its users.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 1-4
- List of Figures
- pp. 9-15
- Contributors
- pp. 16-24
- Boxing Practices
- p. 25
- Introductions
- I. Trap
- 5. Better Shelter
- pp. 73-92
- 7. System Box (Tray) with Wasp
- pp. 109-124
- II. Juke
- III. Time
- IV. Cargo
- 15. Parcels Render Neglected People Visible
- pp. 231-240
- V. Black
- VI. Text
- VII. Ice
- VIII. Anxiety
- IX. Count
- 28. Petri dish (boîte de Petri, Petrischale)
- pp. 457-472
- X. Mirror
- 31. The Mirror Trap
- pp. 491-504
- XI. Tool
- 36. Surgeons' Chests from the Mary Rose
- pp. 571-582
- 37. Ruminations on an Electrotherapeutic Box
- pp. 583-596
- 38. Reliquary: A Box for a Relic
- pp. 597-606
- 39. The Research Box
- pp. 607-624
- Mattering Press Titles
- pp. 625-626
Additional Information
ISBN
9781912729036
Related ISBN(s)
9781912729012
MARC Record
OCLC
1229912897
Pages
628
Launched on MUSE
2021-01-10
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-SA