IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 631: Assembling Things and Humans: On the Formation of Associations, Groups, and Societies, II
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Tilo Renz, Collaborative Research Center 980 'Episteme in Motion', Freie Universität Berlin |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Beate Ulrike La Sala, Collaborative Research Center 980 'Episteme in Motion' / Institut für Philosophie, Freie Universität Berlin |
| Paper 631-a | Objects, Places, and Perceptions: Narrating Medieval Utopian Communities (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Political Thought |
| Paper 631-b | Assembling Materials, Paintings, and Humans in Late Medieval Tuscany (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Religious Life |
| Paper 631-c | Transcultural Economics of the Marvellous in German Travel Narratives, c. 1200 (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - German, Social History |
| Abstract | The second of two panels featuring scholars from the interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Centre 980 'Episteme in Motion' (Freie Universität Berlin) seeks to examine different ways in which things can become associated with other things as well as with human beings, thereby producing greater units or networks. Taking as our point of departure Bruno Latour's notion of the 'assemblage', we ask whether such chains of associations should be seen as assemblages of different materialities or whether we are justified in speaking of larger collectives, to which human and non-human actors contribute in different but complimentary (and sometimes conflicting) ways. Can such chains of associations contribute to processes of knowledge change? Can we read artefacts (texts, artworks) as assemblages? Does their specific form as media turn artefacts into actors that likewise participate in the formation of collectives? |