Chapter 4 How Memory Comes to Matter : From Social Media to the Internet of T…

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Chapter 4 Godofredo and Francoise Travel Around the World : Phantoms, Radioio…

This chapter focuses on Françoise, a dummy figure of the upper part of the female human body used for calibrating radiation detectors in laboratories around the world. From spring 1962 to the end of 1965, Godofredo Gómez Crespo, a Spanish physicist employed by the International Atomic Energy Agency, travelled the world carrying Françoise in a box-like suitcase that also included a number of …

The materiality of nothing : exploring our everyday relationships with object…

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How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement

An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or "all in the head." This shift in perspective raises important questions about the relationship between cognition and …

Transient workspaces: Technologies of everyday innovation in Zimbabwe

"In this book, Clapperton Mavhunga views technology in Africa from an African perspective. Technology in his account is not something always brought in from outside, but is also something that ordinary people understand, make, and practice through their everyday innovations or creativities -- including things that few would even consider technological. Technology does not always originate in th…

Artifacts :an archaeologist's year in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley, a small place with few identifiable geologic or geographic features, has achieved a mythical reputation in a very short time. The modern material culture of the Valley may be driven by technology, but it also encompasses architecture, transportation, food, clothing, entertainment, intercultural exchanges, and rituals.Combining a reporter's instinct for a good interview with trad…

Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice

This volume provides an examination of how garbage reveals the relationships between the global and the local, the economic and the ecological, and the historical and the contemporary.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Meaningful stuff :design that lasts

"In a world suffocated by people and things, this book exposes why we throwaway things that still work, and shows how we can design products, services, and experiences that last"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

At Home in Renaissance Bruges: Connecting Objects, People and Domestic Spaces…

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Excavations at Portchester Castle Vol. V: Post Medieval 1609–1819

In the fifth and final report on the excavations at Portchester Castle, the last stage of the castle’s useful life is considered in full. The excavations undertaken between 1961 and 1979 brough to light structural evidence of the various buildings erected during the period 1609–1819, together with a large collection of varied artefacts. This evidence is presented against the backgrounds of …