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Bundles, Trunks, Magazines: Storage, Aperspectival Description, and the Generation of Narrative
Miruna Stanica
: Although accounts of novelistic description have assumed that interior spaces are primarily spaces of habitation, another type of interior space dominates fiction pre-1800. This is a space of storage, which holds material objects in reserve and keeps them at hand for human characters, instead of arranging persons and objects together as spaces of habitation do. Spaces of storage, such as bundles, trunks, magazines, and other containers, have their contents represented aperspectivally, via enumeration rather than spatially situated description. In picaresque fiction and early 18th-century English novels such as Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Colonel Jack, as well as Samuel Richardson's Pamela, these bundled objects generate narrative rather than furnishing a setting for human action.
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Reading Art and Objecthood while Thinking about Containers
2018 •
Hannah B Higgins
An exploration of containers in and around the artworld of the 1960s, as read through the lens of Michael fried's paradigmatic essay.
Dissident Desire, edited by Suza Husse and Lorenzo Sandoval, Berlin: district
The liquid suitcase. A miniature thought experiment
2014 •
Anna Bromley
Semi-fictional essay about Hildegard Knef's Berlin suitcase, Kennedy's summoned Berliners, and Zygmunt Bauman's concept of liquid modernity.
Containment: Technologies of Holding, Filtering, Leaking.
Holding and Being Held: Handbags as Container Technologies
2024 •
Meredith Jones
This paper explores the handbag as a material and symbolic container technology. Deploying Zoë Sofia's "Container Technologies" theory and the phenomenological work of Iris Marion Young, it analyzes the handbag in terms of both what and how it contains. The mobilities that the handbag facilitates are considered alongside how carrying such an object impedes bodily mobility. The handbag's particularities as a container make it a portable domestic lifeworld-here called a microworld-and a way to take the indoors outdoors, a way to mediate private and public spheres. I consider ways that handbags are connected to feminine ways of being in space, in terms of both enabling and disabling, and their roles in pedagogies of femininity.
Leonardo Music Journal
Hand-Luggage: For a Generative Theory of Artifacts
This article presents the basic elements and strategies of a generative theory of artifacts, the Theorie der Werkgenese. Starting with a narrative reconstruction of Mike Mills's TV commercial for Adidas, the text briefly outlines a history of aleatoric games and heuristic strategies in the classical avantgarde as well as in postmodern follow-ups and late-20th-century pop music. Finally, the various fictions conveyed by the commercial are narrated in a new way, demonstrating generative analysis.
Atlantica: Contemporary Art After Independence in Angola and its Diasporas, Orpheo Negro, Lisbon
Container Contained. On the Work of Francisco Vidal
2019 •
MARTA JECU
“The Container: Stacking, Packing, and Moving the World.” In Leopold Lambert (ed.), The Funambulist. July-August 2016 (Object Politics)
Charmaine Chua
*Note: this version of the article does not reflect the final publication, which was designed and edited by Funambulist editor Leopold Lambert. For a final version and to support this independent publication, you may purchase a copy of the magazine here: http://thefunambulist.net/2016/07/01/object-politics-the-sixth-issue-of-the-funambulist-magazine-now-published/ In this article, I ask how the container as architectural object has become a political infrastructure, creating a calculable system of material processing that has enabled an entire reassessment of how, where, when, and for whom goods are made and moved.
The Semiotics of Purse
Lily Robert-Foley
In this article I read the contents of my purse according to Peirce's semiotics typology.
‘Jar’ / ‘Jug’ / ‘Bottle’: Man’s Earthly Essence
2023 •
Michael Lockwood
My intuition is that in the 2nd quarter of the 2nd century CE, when the four gospels of the New Testament were first being written in the Royal Library of Alexandria, the evangelists, in writing four versions of the episode of the sinful woman anointing Jesus (the hypertexts), were writing with more than one level of hypotexts in mind. ¶ The hypotext made truly famous world-wide by Dennis R. MacDonald is the passage in Homer’s epic of ‘The Odyssey’, wherein the aged maidservant, Eurycleia, is bathing the leg of a beggar, not realizing that the “beggar” is her master, Odysseus, in disguise. ¶ When Eurycleia suddenly recognizes the boar-inflicted scar on Odysseus’ thigh, she drops the basin, in her surprise, spilling the water. ¶ Another important hypotext that I am now pointing out in this 17th theorem is the ‘Rabbi Judah and his wise maidservant’ passage, found on pp. 391-392 of Dina Stein’s article, where water is also spilled.
Containers of Meaning
Alise Gunnarssone
This paper is a short introduction to one of the Couronian burial tradition aspects: miniature pottery. Miniature pottery was widely used in Couronian culture between the fi fth and ninth centuries AD but on occasion the pots can still be found up to the end of the tenth century. The focus of this paper is the theoretical possibility to understand this material in relation to symbolic understanding of afterlife and the person's transition into it. Miniature pots appear as part of Couronian burial traditions with the forming of Couronian culture in the fi fth century. The shift from cremation burials to inhumation burials prompts a change in the burial urns. As the burial urns have no more practical use they can be resized to become symbolic vessels for the soul's passage into the afterlife. The miniature pots seem to have no practical meaning and are made specifi cally for placement in graves. In later centuries when miniature ceramics become less used it can be seen that the original meaning of miniature pottery has changed, infl uencing the whole burial symbolism. Miniaturized objects are no longer connected with vessels to the afterlife but with the symbolic representation of the objects that are to be transported. BAR S2785 Prehistoric Pottery Across the Baltic Edited by Paul Eklöv Pettersson. British Archaeological Reports Ltd; 9781407314631; 2016.Order Online: www.barpublishing.com
