After discourse : things, affects, ethics /
edited by Bjørnar Olsen, Mats Burström, Caitlin DeSilvey and Þóra Pétursdóttir.
- 1 online resource
After discourse : an introduction / Bjørnar Olsen, Mats Burström, Caitlin DeSilvey and Þóra Pétursdóttir -- Things : writing, nearing, knowing / Þóra Pétursdóttir -- Writing things after discourse / Bjørnar Olsen & Þóra Pétursdóttir -- Wild things / Levi R. Bryant -- In the presence of things / Jeff Malpas -- Thick speech and deep time in the Anthropocene / Robert Macfarlane -- On the face of things / Torgeir Rinke Bangstad -- Affects : sensing things / Mats Burström -- The view from somewhere : liquid, geologic, and queer bodies / Denis Byrne -- Stranded stones and settled species : affect and effects of ballast / Mats Burström -- Out of the day, time and life : phenomenology and cavescapes / Hein B. Bjerck -- Ruins of ruins : the aura of archaeological remains / Saphinaz-Amal Naguib -- What remains? On material nostalgia / Alfredo González-Ruibal -- Ethics : caring for things / Caitlin DeSilvey -- Touching tactfully : the impossible community / Lucas Introna -- Foundered : other objects and the ethics of indifference / Caitlin DeSilvey -- Releasing the visual archive : on the ethics of destruction / Doug Bailey -- Through the Jackpile-Paguate Uranium Mine / Christopher Witmore with Curtis L. Francisco -- Towards a post-Anthropocentric ethic / Timothy James LeCain.
"After Discourse is an interdisciplinary response to the recent trend away from linguistic and textual approaches and towards things and their affects. The new millennium brought about serious changes to the intellectual landscape. Favoured approaches associated with the linguistic and the textual lost some of their steam, and were followed by a new curiosity and concern for things and their natures. Gathering contributions from archaeology, heritage studies, history, geography, literature and philosophy, After Discourse offers a range of reflections on what things are, how we become affected by them, and the ethical concerns they give rise to. Through a varied constellation of case studies, it explores ways of dealing with matters which fall outside, become othered from, or simply cannot be grasped through perspectives derived solely from language and writing. After Discourse provides a new perspective for archaeologists, anthropologists and historians interested in the way objects can shed light on areas where textual evidence falls short"--