Materials and Time
The purpose of this research blog is to engage humanities and social sciences scholars in a dialogue with material scientists in order to better characterize the hybrid life of materials as natural entities and social or economic agents.
We aim to build a collaborative interdisciplinary research network focused on humans’ interactions and interdependencies with materials today and in the long-duration history.
We are creating an anthology that gathers the contributions of scholars from a wide spectrum of research fields who are exploring the temporalities of material, each from their own perspective. The project will explore topics such as:
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- lifetimes, lifecycles, use, trajectories, persistence, endurance, ageing
- depletion, peaks, criticality, erosion, alteration, degradation, conservation
- re-use, remaining, recycling, returns, inheritances, rivalries, substitution
- birthdays and anniversaries, death, decline, rebirth
- genealogies, time travel
- ephemerality, regimes of temporality, mimetism
- ages, epochs
- chronomarkers, signatures, records and measurements.
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