Mattering Press
Boxes: A Field Guide
- Susanne Bauer (editor)
- Martina Schlünder (editor)
- Maria Rentetzi(editor)
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| Title | Boxes |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | A Field Guide |
| Contributor | Susanne Bauer (editor) |
| Martina Schlünder (editor) | |
| Maria Rentetzi(editor) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.28938/9781912729012 |
| Landing page | https://www.matteringpress.org/books/boxes |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Susanne Bauer; Martina Schlünder; Maria Rentetzi |
| Publisher | Mattering Press |
| Publication place | Manchester, UK |
| Published on | 2020-08-12 |
| ISBN | 978-1-912729-01-2 (Paperback) |
| 978-1-912729-02-9 (PDF) | |
| 978-1-912729-04-3 (HTML) | |
| 978-1-912729-03-6 (EPUB) | |
| Short abstract | A book full of boxes. A box in itself. An unboxing. This book explores boxes in their broadest sense and size. It invites us to step into the field, unravel how and why things are contained and how it might be otherwise. By turning the focus of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to boxing practices, this collation of essays examines boxes as world-making devices. |
| Long abstract | A book full of boxes. A box in itself. An unboxing. This book explores boxes in their broadest sense and size. It invites us to step into the field, unravel how and why things are contained and how it might be otherwise. By turning the focus of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to boxing practices, this collation of essays examines boxes as world-making devices. Gathered in the format of a field guide, it offers an introduction to ways of ordering the world, unpacking their boxed-up, largely invisible politics and epistemics. Performatively, pushing against conventional uses of academic books, this volume is about rethinking taken-for-granted formats and infrastructures of scholarly ordering – thinking, writing, reading. It diverges from encyclopedic logics and representative overviews of boxing practices and the architectural organization of monographs and edited volumes through a single, overarching argument. This book asks its users to leave well-trodden paths of linear and comprehensive reading and invites them to read sideways, creating their own orders through associations and relating. Thus, this book is best understood as an intervention, a beginning, an open box, a slim volume that needs expansion and further experiments with ordering by its users. |
| Print length | 628 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Dimensions | 152 x 32 x 229 mm | 5.98" x 1.26" x 9.02" (Paperback) |
| 152 x 33 x 229 mm | 5.98" x 1.3" x 9.02" (Hardback) | |
| Weight | 826g | 29.14oz (Paperback) |
| 1002g | 35.34oz (Hardback) | |
| Media | 150 illustrations |
| 1 table | |
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Contents
- Martina Schlünder
- Maria Rentetzi
- Susanne Bauer
- Jameson Kısmet Bell
Better Shelter
(pp. 72–90)- Emily Brownell
- Ulrich Mechler
System Box (Tray) with Wasp
(pp. 108–123)- Tahani Nadim
Thinking Inside the Box: The Construction of Knowledge in a Miniature Seventeenth-Century Cabinet
(pp. 126–143)- Stephanie Bowry
Musical Instrument Boxes. Hidden Information: Cases for Musical Instruments and Their Functions
(pp. 144–155)- Beatrix Darmstädter
- Martina Siebert
Contesting the Box: Museums and Repatriation
(pp. 168–184)- Stewart Allen
Archaeology and Cigarettes: ‘Ekphora’ and ‘Periphora’ of the Archaeological Identity through Cigarette Packs
(pp. 186–200)- Styliana Galiniki
- Eleftheria Akrivopoulou
- Nils Güttler
- Martina Schlünder
- Susanne Bauer
More than a Toy Box: Dandanah and the Sea of Stories
(pp. 202–212)- Artemis Yagou
- Tanja Hammel
Boxes, Infrastructure and the Materiality of Moral Relations: Aid and Respect after Cyclone Pam
(pp. 230–239)- Alexandra Widmer
‘As Modern As Tomorrow’: The Medicine Cabinet
(pp. 254–268)- Deanna Day
- Eric J. Engstrom
Scaling Up from the Bench: Fermentation Tank
(pp. 288–304)- Victoria Lee
Deep Time History: The Lure of the Black Box
(pp. 306–323)- Dagmar Schäfer
Panels and Frames: Toward a New Relationship between Text and Image in Academic Writing
(pp. 327–363)- Pit Arens
- Martina Schlünder
- Sarah Blacker
Biobank Boxes: Technologies of Population
(pp. 380–395)- Susanne Bauer
The Magic of Dropbox, its Virtuality and Materiality
(pp. 396–406)- Shih-Pei Chen
- Yi-Ping Cheng
Keep Calm and Carry One: The Civilian Gas Mask Case and its Containment of British Emotions
(pp. 424–440)- Mats Fridlund
Cardboard Box: The Politics of Materiality
(pp. 442–455)- Maria Rentetzi
Petri dish (boîte de Petri, Petrischale)
(pp. 458–470)- Mathias Grote
Prussian Census Box: Moving and Freezing Data
(pp. 472–479)- Christine von Oertzen
- Maria Rentetzi
The Mirror Trap
(pp. 492–503)- Etienne Benson
- Johanna Gonçalves Martín
- Mirka Palioura
- Spyridoula Pyrpyli
- Myrto Vouleli
- Martina Schlünder
- Don Duprez
Surgeons’ Chests from the Mary Rose
(pp. 570–580)- Hanako Endo
Ruminations on an Electrotherapeutic Box
(pp. 582–594)- Jan Eric Olsén
Reliquary: A Box for a Relic
(pp. 596–605)- Lucy Razzall
The Research Box
(pp. 606–624)- Bonnie Mak
- Julia Pollack
Contributors
Susanne Bauer
(editor)Susanne Bauer is professor in Science and Technologies Studies (STS) at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo. Trained as environmental scientist and epidemiologist, her work in the social studies of science has unpacked calculative infrastructures and data politics in the health sciences. Her current research interests range from the conditions of intensified data recombination and the making and circulation of regulatory knowledges, to airports as multiple borderlands, and logistics as technoscience.
Martina Schlünder
(editor)Martina Schlünder is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. As a scholar in feminist science studies she explores and analyses the politics of technoscience in reproductive technologies, their broader implications in the history of eugenics, biopolitics and feminisms.
Maria Rentetzi
(editor)Maria Rentetzi is professor at the Technical University Berlin. She has published widely on the history of nuclear sciences with an emphasis on gender, material culture, and science diplomacy. A physicist by training, Rentetzi currently leads an ERC Consolidator Grant that studies the history of radiation protection and the role the International Atomic Energy Agency has played as a diplomatic and political international institution in shaping radiation policies and nuclear diplomacies.