Materialities

Abstract

“Materialities” is a term suggestive of emerging theories about how we should understand the very existence of stuff, and our diverse experiences of, or encounters with it. These ontological and metaphysical theories explore how material properties relate, change, and actively proliferate, sometimes signaling abundances of a more radical or volatile sort. Both of the qualities of materiality - of spatial-physical composition and of politico-social relevance - have fused in recent debate about the spirit, purpose, and direction of contemporary cultural geography. The urge to rematerialize by “getting real” is ongoing, regularly exercised through vocal opposition to what is labeled as “theory for theory's sake.”. Beyond the city limits, experimental explorations of uncertain materialities have turned to atmospheric conditions and elemental states, the body-subject, sense, and matter. This “material turn” in geographical thinking has been closely informed by strands of vitalist, phenomenological, and feminist philosophy.

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