Material philosophy and the adaptability of materials

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Publication date 12-2022
Journal Adaptive Behavior
Volume | Issue number 30 | 6
Pages (from-to) 517-519
Number of pages 3
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  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract This reflection on Erik Rietveld’s The Affordances of Art for Making Technologies addresses, first, what it is to engage in material philosophy and make material propositions and then, second, what different materialities, or rather different ways of handling materialities, allow material philosophers to say. It notes that solidity is not an intrinsic property of any stuff. If only they are handled with care, and loved enough, even wood, concrete and metal turn out to be adaptable.
Document type Comment/Letter to the editor
Note Comment to: E. Rietveld (2022) The Affordances of Art for Making Technologies. Adaptive Behavior, vol. 30, iss. 6, pp. 489-503.
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712320984510
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