Year: 2021
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Reactivating.Calling a recognized entity into a new situation; catalyzing new modes of thought and action; waking up new insight from the slumber of the familiar and the mundane.Reactivation, in the sense of reactivity, also recalls the agency of chemical substances.Elements.From the chemical elements to the elementals earth, air, fire, waterand back.Simultaneously evoking and blurring the ancient and modern, the elements have been brought back in recent years to speak in old and new tongues, in diverse contexts and practices, generating other ways of story ing long-standing narratives.Reactivating Elements draws the nonlinear historical significance of elemental thought into contemporary practice, while inviting new provocations and curiosities about these ever-present and simultaneously elusive phenomena.The elements are activated in the chapters of this collection in different ways, reflecting on and responding to the messy mixtures of elemental matters, energies, and modes of thought and practice shaping Earth's troubled ecologies today.These accounts engage the elements capaciously, taking up both the periodic table of the elements inscribed by the discipline of chemistry (Stengers) and those irreducible "elemen-Downloaded from http://read.
Source: Duke University Press eBooks
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3217486142