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Tagged: materiality

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Beyond ‘Reading’ Materials: Trace (on Trace) and Value

Agnes Piekacz – In the early 20th century, British colonial government representatives introduced a new tariff schedule in British-South Africa. At the docksides of British-South African ports, colonial customs officials were subsequently tasked with sorting the commodities they encountered into the orderly classifications that the tariff schedules prescribed. The ensuing early-20th century disputes between customs officials and importers over the causational links drawn by the latter point to broader theoretical-methodological issues faced by historians: How do we link the messiness of the objects we encounter to a past we aim to access and reconstruct?

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Geology

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Paul Kurek – Now that the widespread interdisciplinary call to finally face our geological foundations as an overarching material and intellectual framework is getting louder and louder, it seems unavoidable that we become aware of how close our collective weight has come to exceeding our planet’s load-bearing capacity.

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Realism, Historical Traces, and Unintentional Evidence. A Look at Charles S. Peirce

Tullio Viola – Charles S. Peirce is primarily read and discussed today for his contribution to logic and semiotics, and as a key figure in pragmatist philosophy. Much less known is his interest in history, both as a scientific discipline to be cultivated alongside philosophy and as fertile ground for philosophical reflection.