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1. Objects And Materials: An Introduction / Penny Harvey And Hannah Knox -- Part I. Material Qualities. Introduction / Gillian Evans; 2. An Interview With Artist Helen Barff / Gillian Evans; 3. A Poor Workman Blames His Tools, Or How Irrigation Systems Structure Human Actions / Maurits W. Ertsen; 4. The Material Construction Of State Power: Artifacts And The New Rome / Chandra Mukerji; 5. The Material Politics Of Solid Waste: Decentralization And Integrated Systems / Penny Harvey; 6. From Stone To God And Back Again: Why We Need Both Materials And Materiality / Soumhya Venkatesan; 7. New Materials And Their Impact On The Material World / Susanne Küchler And Peter Oakley; 8. Decay, Temporality And The Politics Of Conservation: An Archaeological Approach To Material Studies / Eleanor Conlin Casella And Karina Croucher -- Part Ii. Affective Objects. Introduction / Eleanor Conlin Casella And Kath Woodward; 9. Boxing Films: Sensation And Affect / Kath Woodward; 10. Tactile Compositions / Kathleen Stewart; 11. Bodies And Cadavers / Maryon Mcdonald; 12. Domination And Desire: The Paradox Of Egyptian Human Remains In Museums / Karen Exell; 13. A Dream Of Falling: Philosophy And Family Violence / Patricia Ticineto Clough; 14. Sarah Kofman's Father's Pen And Bracha Ettinger's Mother's Spoon: Trauma, Transmission And The Strings Of Virtuality / Griselda Pollock; 15. Spectral Objects: Material Links To Difficult Pasts For Adoptive Families / Steven D. Brown, Paula Reavey And Helen Brookfield -- Part Iii. Unsettling Objects. Introduction / Elizabeth B. Silva; 16. Haunting In The Material Of Everyday Life / Elizabeth B. Silva; 17. The Fetish Of Connectivity / Morten Axel Pedersen; 18. Useless Objects: Commodities, Collections And Fetishes In The Politics Of Objects / Nicholas Thoburn; 19. The Unknown Objects Of Object-orientation / Matthew Fuller And Andrew Goffey; 20. How Things Can Unsettle / Martin Holbraad; 21. Objects Are The Root Of All Philosophy / Graham Harman -- Part Iv. Interface Objects. Introduction / Nicholas Thoburn; 22. True Automobility / Tim Dant; 23. The Environmental Teapot And Other Loaded Household Objects: Reconnecting The Politics Of Technology, Issues And Things / Noortje Marres; 24. Interfaces: The Mediation Of Things And The Distribution Of Behaviours / Celia Lury; 25. Idempotent, Pluripotent, Biodigital: Objects In The 'biological Century' / Adrian Mackenzie; 26. Real-izing The Virtual: Digital Simulation And The Politics Of Future Making / Hannah Knox; 27. Money Frontiers: The Relative Location Of Euros, Turkish Lira And Gold Sovereigns In The Aegean / Sarah Green; 28. Algorithms And The Manufacture Of Financial Reality / Marc Lenglet -- Part V. Becoming Object. Introduction / Chris Mclean And Gillian Evans; 29. Animal Architextures / John Law And Marianne Elisabeth Lien; 30. Objects Made Out Of Action / Matei Candea; 31. Quantitative Objects And Qualitative Things: Ethics And Hiv Biomedical Prevention / Mike Michael And Marsha Rosengarten; 32. Potentialities And Possibilities Of Needs Assessment: Objects, Memory And Crystal Images / Chris Mclean; 33. Digital Traces And The 'print' Of Threat: Targeting Populations In The War On Terror / Alexandra Hall And Jonathan Mendel; 34. Intangible Objects: How Patent Law Is Redefining Materiality / Mario Biagioli; 35. Thinking Through Place And Late Actor-network-theory Spatialities / Robert Oppenheim; 36. What Documents Make Possible: Realizing London's Olympic Legacy / Gillian Evans. Edited By Penny Harvey, Eleanor Conlin Casella, Gillian Evans, Hannah Knox, Christine Mclean, Elizabeth B. Silva, Nicholas Thoburn And Kath Woodward. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.