Journal articles: 'Agency of objects'

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Brown, Jason W., and Maria Pachalska. "AGENCY AND FREEDOM." Acta Neuropsychologica 20, no. 2 (May 15, 2022): 241–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.9443.

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This paper takes up the problem of agency in relation to freedom. The account is based on the notion that action and perception develop in parallel out of instinctual drive, with thought and imagery pointing to accentuations at pre-perceptual phases, and feeling referring to preliminary segments in action. Objects develop out of drive categories; actions out of drive energy. The inseparability of feeling and concept gives intent and emotion, which innervate concepts. Intent is feeling that gives impetus to decision. The self is deposited early in the process, ideas and feelings midway, acts and objects at the endpoint. The sequence from drive to object constitutes a mental state. The passage from self to act or object is an act of self-realization. Succession in a mental state is simultaneous until actualizing, at which point, though still epochal, the succession takes on temporal order in the present. The precedence of the self in the succession and the affective impulse that action imparts to concepts, gives the feeling of agency, purpose and self-determination.

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Castro, Brian. "Melancholy Objects: Flaubert's Double Agency." Australian Journal of French Studies 48, no. 3 (September 2011): 257–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/ajfs.48.3.257.

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Zimmermann, Basile. "Tracing the Action of Technical Objects in an Ethnography: Vinyls in Beijing." Qualitative Sociology Review 3, no. 3 (December 30, 2007): 22–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.3.3.03.

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To do ethnography implies dealing with the agency of technical objectsi. The aim of this paper is to share a few ideas on how to tackle the one of vinyls in the particular activity that is the mix of a disc jockey. To do so, I first provide a general picture of the work of Xiao Deng, a Chinese disc jockey I observed in Beijing between 2003 and 2004. Then I present three observations of specific events that occured during that period which, I believe, bring into light not only some specificities of the agency of the technical object “vinyl” but also useful information about how one can take into account the agency of objects when doing ethnography.

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Chapman, John, Bisserka Gaydarska, and Emma Watson. "“What Have our Figurines Ever Done for us?” Magic and Agency in Balkan-Carpathian Prehistory." Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology, no. 2 (April 30, 2022): 159–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.55086/sp222159192.

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The work of Mary Helms and Alfred Gell on cultural transformations, object colour and brilliance and their links to ritual power emphasises the most important aspect of magic for objects — its agency. The aesthetic of exotic, bright and colourful objects in the Neolithic and Copper Age of ‘Old Europe’ was central to the objects’ agency. However, the vast majority of figurines from this region was neither polished nor highly coloured, nor even decorated — sometimes showing signs of rapid production for short-term usage. Yet there is a widespread notion that figurines had the potential to produce special effects in ritual practice. Just as the agency of figurines is ‘culture-specific’ as well as context-specific, their potency depended upon a widespread underlying acceptance of what this particular class of objects could do for people. Here we pose two questions: how did figurines perform their agency? and was figurine’s agency fundamentally different from the agency of bright, colourful, exotic objects? We present four examples of the magical effects — i. e. the agency — of figurines from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Copper Age of Old Europe: the efficacy of Lepenski Vir fish-persons; how figurines contributed to the practice of black magic in the Vinča group; the ability of the fragmentation of shiny, black Hamangia figurines to achieve significant social effects; and the arrangement of Cucuteni figurine sets to educate women about (in)fertility.

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Wilcox, Jonathan. "Objects That Object, Subjects That Subvert: Agency in Exeter Book Riddle 5." Humanities 11, no. 2 (February 25, 2022): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h11020033.

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A sequence of Old English riddles from the Exeter Book allow an implement to speak. This article focuses on one example, Riddle 5, generally solved as either a shield or a cutting board, to show how each interpretation gives voice not just to an inanimate object but also to a non-elite member of early medieval English society—either a foot-soldier or a kitchen hand. The two solutions come together because the two answers are captured in a single Old English word—“bord”—and also because the two interpretations resonate in parallel ways, creating sympathy for down-trodden members of society who rarely get so much attention in the surviving poetic record. This article argues that Old English riddles provide an enduring legacy of social critique crafted through humor.

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TAYLOR, CAROLE ANNE. "Positioning Subjects and Objects: Agency, Narration, Relationality." Hypatia 8, no. 1 (February 1993): 55–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1993.tb00628.x.

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Behan, Antonia. ":Rhapsodic Objects: Art, Materiality, Agency." West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 30, no. 1 (March 1, 2023): 110–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/728343.

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Weir, Simon. "Living and Nonliving Occasionalism." Open Philosophy 3, no. 1 (April 21, 2020): 147–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0010.

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AbstractGraham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology has employed a variant of occasionalist causation since 2002, with sensual objects acting as the mediators of causation between real objects. While the mechanism for living beings creating sensual objects is clear, how nonliving objects generate sensual objects is not. This essay sets out an interpretation of occasionalism where the mediating agency of nonliving contact is the virtual particles of nominally empty space. Since living, conscious, real objects need to hold sensual objects as sub-components, but nonliving objects do not, this leads to an explanation of why consciousness, in Object-Oriented Ontology, might be described as doubly withdrawn: a sensual sub-component of a withdrawn real object.

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Tuncer, Sylvaine, and Pentti Haddington. "Object transfers: An embodied resource to progress joint activities and build relative agency." Language in Society 49, no. 1 (September 23, 2019): 61–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s004740451900071x.

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ABSTRACTThis article builds on ethnomethodological, conversation analytic research on object transfers: how participants hand over objects to one another. By analyzing video recordings of mundane (cars) and institutional interactions (laboratories), we focus on situations where an object is central to and talked about in the joint course of action. We focus on different organizations of object transfer and show that one embodied move is decisive, either a sequentially implicative ‘give’ or an arm extension designed as a stand-alone ‘take’. We examine the interrelationship between the organization of the object transfer and the broader course of action (e.g. request or offer sequence), which is either overlapping or intersecting. We demonstrate that by making the decisive move, either the participant initially holding the object or her recipient critically influences the progression and trajectory of the activity, and displays agency. (Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis, multimodal interactions, objects in interaction, object transfers, agency)*

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Baranovas, Ruslanas. "Virtuality and the Problem of Agency in Object-Oriented Ontology." Open Philosophy 3, no. 1 (May 27, 2020): 233–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0106.

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AbstractIn his Prince of Networks, Graham Harman reconstructs Latourian critique of concepts of potentiality and virtuality with which he claims to agree. This seems striking because Latour’s arguments seem to be exactly those Harman rejects in his other writings as overmining. Furthermore, this critique of potentiality and virtuality creates a dividing line between Harman and Bryant’s Democracy of Objects, where the concept of virtual plays a central role. In this article, I will explore this debate, focusing on how the concept of virtuality works in the context of the ontological realism that Object-Oriented Ontology is. To do this, I will first present Bryant’s notion of virtuality focusing on the problem of the individuality of the object. Then I will explore Latourian–Harmanian arguments against virtuality and show that the main issue Harman has with virtuality has to do with the agency of objects. Therefore, I claim that the main dividing line between Bryant’s and Harman’s versions of Object-Oriented Ontology is the difference between the two notions of agency.

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Chatterjee, Deepsikha. "Agentic Aharya: Vibrant masks from South Asia." Studies in Costume & Performance 6, no. 2 (December 1, 2021): 269–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/scp_00051_3.

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This essay foregrounds visuals of masks and costumes from Chhau and Bhaona performances from South Asia. Using a new materialist lens along with writings on ritual images, it reflects on how these masks and costumes have agency. Referred to as Aharya in the Indian context, the masks and costumes of the case studies straddle a unique position between performative objects, religious objects and everyday decorative objects. This multiple positionality endows the masks and costumes an agency that displaces the traditional subject‐object binaries of actor and costume. Highlighting Aharya’s inherent affective and ritual properties and foregrounding the mask-makers’ use of local materials, centuries-old techniques and their skills and creativity to conceptualize masks that work alongside and beyond performances, the visual essay shows how these objects exceed the maker and the performer and reach wider audiences.

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Lindstrøm, Torill Christine. "Agency ‘in itself’. A discussion of inanimate, animal and human agency." Archaeological Dialogues 22, no. 2 (November 2, 2015): 207–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1380203815000264.

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Abstract‘Agency’, the concept, its connections to ontology and its uses within archaeological theory, are discussed and criticized. In recent archaeological theory, the term ‘agency’ has been attributed to things, plants, animals and humans. In this paper it is argued that the term ‘agency’ is logically meaningless if applied to everything that moves or has effects on its surroundings, and that we need a new, more precise terminology that discriminates between ‘agency’, ‘effect’, ‘actant’ and ‘effectant’. That people, of all cultures, perceive and experience things/objects as having agency is explained as being due to projections of human characteristics, human psycho-neurological functioning, and the fact that all individuals and cultures are deeply involved with and dependent on things/objects. Connected to this, questions regarding different ontologies, animism, ethics and sciences are discussed. The paper presents a critique of symmetrical archaeology and materiality studies. Broader paradigmatic perspectives, more theoretical and methodological inclusiveness, and more inter- and trans-disciplinary endeavours are suggested to increase archaeology's ‘agency’.

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Keller, Vera. "Storied Objects, Scientific Objects, and Renaissance Experiment: The Case of Malleable Glass." Renaissance Quarterly 70, no. 2 (2017): 594–632. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/693182.

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AbstractThe career of storied objects can help highlight the agency of absence and historicize the notion of scientific objects more generally. Until the sixteenth century, lost, ancient flexible glass was studied separately from malleable glass. The latter appeared as a claimed chymical product and craft recipe. The bridging of social and epistemic registers merged these accounts. Malleable glass became a prestigious scientific object. Appearing in numerous utopias, it stimulated a participatory public of scientific amateurs. Such storied objects served as vectors for spreading experimental culture, yet declined as new professions emerged. The charisma that made malleable glass a seventeenth-century scientific object led to its rejection by newly professionalized eighteenth-century chemists and its replacement by a less evocative scientific object, “malleability.”

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Ismail, Roslina, Amira Hanafi, and Kamaruzaman Jusoff. "Object-Oriented Ontology in Shaping Perspective on Bacterial Art and Nonhuman Agency." Leonardo 57, no. 3 (2024): 286–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02522.

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Abstract The study of bacterial art provides an opportunity to investigate the philosophical framework of object-oriented ontology (OOO). This viewpoint challenges traditional human-centered perspectives by highlighting the autonomy and agency of all objects, including microorganisms. Objects have their own inherent properties and are regarded as equal actors in the world. The authors highlight the dynamic relationship between humans and microorganisms and the agency of bacteria in bioart. Bacterial art raises concerns regarding control, authorship, aesthetics, and ethics, necessitating interdisciplinary discussions and critical evaluations. This study provides an intriguing case examining the implications of OOO at the intersection of science and art.

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Fogelin, Lars, and Michael Brian Schiffer. "Rites of Passage and Other Rituals in the Life Histories of Objects." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 25, no. 4 (May 12, 2015): 815–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774315000153.

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In the last few decades, archaeologists have increasingly studied the material expression of religion. At the same time, they have recognized that some objects are animate in ways similar to people. Building on previous research that combines studies of religion, object agency and behavioural perspectives, we present an approach that focuses on the variety of rituals, especially rites of passage, in which objects participate over the course of their life histories. Occurring in societies at all levels of organizational complexity, rites of passage offer archaeologists an opportunity to contribute to the anthropology of ritual and an understanding of the ways that some objects take on, or are given, attributes of life. More subtly, by comparing the rites of passage of objects and the people who interact with them, we can assess differences in the specific qualities of object and human agency. These approaches may help us to orient the search for archaeological evidence of rites of passage as well as to interpret enigmatic deposits such as caches, hoards and offerings.

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Cornejo González, Matías. "Museum Performativity and the Agency of Sacred Objects." ICOFOM Study Series, no. 47(1-2) (October 12, 2019): 73–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/iss.1413.

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Nardi, Bonnie, Natalia Gajdamaschko, and Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur. "Agency, Identity, and Objects in Work and Play." Mind, Culture, and Activity 24, no. 3 (June 28, 2017): 181–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2017.1338047.

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Spahn, Andreas. "Digital Objects, Digital Subjects and Digital Societies: Deontology in the Age of Digitalization." Information 11, no. 4 (April 20, 2020): 228. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info11040228.

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Digitalization affects the relation between human agents and technological objects. This paper looks at digital behavior change technologies (BCT) from a deontological perspective. It identifies three moral requirements that are relevant for ethical approaches in the tradition of Kantian deontology: epistemic rationalism, motivational rationalism and deliberational rationalism. It argues that traditional Kantian ethics assumes human ‘subjects’ to be autonomous agents, whereas ‘objects’ are mere passive tools. Digitalization, however, challenges this Cartesian subject-object dualism: digital technologies become more and more autonomous and take on agency. Similarly, human subjects can outsource agency and will-power to technologies. In addition, our intersubjective relations are being more and more shaped by digital technologies. The paper therefore re-examines the three categories ‘subject’, ‘object’ and ‘intersubjectivity’ in light of digital BCTs and suggests deontological guidelines for digital objects, digital subjects and a digitally mediated intersubjectivity, based on a re-examination of the requirements of epistemic, motivational and deliberational rationalism.

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Burns, Maureen. "Delicious Market Devices: Abc Magazines Media Kits." Media International Australia 146, no. 1 (February 2013): 133–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1314600117.

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Like all our objects of research, public service media are not prey waiting in the world – we create them as research objects when we research and when we write. This is easy to forget in the case of public service media, which seem so familiar as research objects because they are already so overwritten. Often we begin the creation of our public service media research object from assumptions that we don't even feel the need to unpack. Public service media institutions might be (and have been) written as discourses, practices, philosophies, politics and/or histories. This article examines what it means to write and research public service media, and it discusses whether descriptions of assemblages that favour particular types of human agency over others – and human agency generally over non-human agents – are sufficient, or whether our research and writing practices might benefit from a hybridisation of methods as well as object(s).

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O’Doherty, Damian, and Daniel Neyland. "The developments in ethnographic studies of organising: Towards objects of ignorance and objects of concern." Organization 26, no. 4 (May 23, 2019): 449–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508419836965.

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In this introduction to the Special Issue, we review the rich tradition of ethnographic studies in organisation studies and critically examine the place of ethnography in organisation studies as practised in schools of business and management. Drawing on the findings of the articles published here, we reflect on the need for a significant extension of the content and syllabus of our discipline to include what we call objects of concern and objects of ignorance. The articles we publish show that decision makers in organizations are not always humans, and nor can we assume the human and its groups monopolise the capacity for agency in organisation. Where we still labour in organisation theory with dualisms such as structure or agent, or subject and object, these articles trace objects and their relations which point to new forms of non-human co-ordination and agency. The organisational realities to which these objects give rise demand careful methodological enquiry, and we show that recent experiments in a genre we call ‘post-reflexive ethnography’ are likely to prove helpful for developing ethnographic enquiry in contemporary organisation.

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Suwardi. "Mass Certification Policy for Community Land Objects." International Journal of Scientific Multidisciplinary Research 1, no. 10 (November 30, 2023): 1227–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.55927/ijsmr.v1i10.6492.

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The Public Service Policy for Land Certification can be said to be a new breakthrough in the field of public services, because the method used to provide services is by visiting the community. The community will be served at a place agreed upon by the local land office and sub-district office. In general regarding land registration, the government has issued Government Regulation Number 24 of 1997 concerning Land Registration. This government regulation is a refinement of Government Regulation Number 10 of 1961. Furthermore, technically the rules for implementing land registration refer to the Regulation of the Minister of State for Agrarian Affairs/Head of BPN Number 3 of 1997 concerning Provisions for Implementing Government Regulation Number 24 of 1997 concerning Land Registration. Other regulations to strengthen the implementation of the People's Service Policy for Land Certification are Government Regulation Number 46 of 2002 concerning Tariffs for Types of Non-Tax State Revenue Applicable to the National Land Agency and Decree of the Head of the National Land Agency of the Republic of Indonesia Number 24 of 2008 concerning the Establishment of Implementers of Development and Development Activities. Monitoring Larasita Activities. This was then followed up by the Regulation of the Head of the National Land Agency of the Republic of Indonesia Number 18 of 2009 concerning Larasita of the National Land Agency of the Republic of Indonesia

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Johnson, Amanda Hankes, and Justin Barrett. "The Role of Control in Attributing Intentional Agency to Inanimate Objects." Journal of Cognition and Culture 3, no. 3 (2003): 208–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853703322336634.

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AbstractPrevious research into the perception of agency has found that objects in twodimensional displays that move along non-inertial-looking paths are frequently attributed intentional agency, including beliefs and desires. The present experiment re-addressed this finding using a tangible, interactive, electromagnetic puzzle. The experimental manipulation was whether or not participants controlled the electromagnet that moved the marbles along unexpected trajectories. Thirty-one college undergraduates participated. Participants who lacked control over the movement of the marbles were significantly more likely to attribute agency to the marbles. Participants in control of the display rarely attributed intentional agency to the marbles. Implications are discussed for the identification of agents in the real world.

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Raja, Rubina, and Lara Weiss. "The Significance of Objects: Considerations on Agency and Context." Religion in the Roman Empire 2, no. 3 (2016): 297. http://dx.doi.org/10.1628/219944616x14770583541445.

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Reichhardt, Tony. "US space agency sharpens focus on near-Earth objects." Nature 392, no. 6677 (April 1998): 639. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/33485.

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Osawa, Hirotaka, and Seiji Yamada. "Social modification using implementation of partial agency toward objects." Artificial Life and Robotics 16, no. 1 (June 2011): 78–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10015-011-0891-2.

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Bauer, Alexander A. "Itinerant Objects." Annual Review of Anthropology 48, no. 1 (October 21, 2019): 335–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102218-011111.

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That the meanings and value of things can be transformed through their circulation was brought to the foreground of anthropological studies more than 30 years ago with the publication of The Social Life of Things (Appadurai 1986b). The last decade, however, has seen a move away from “object biographies” in favor of frameworks that better account for objects’ complex entanglements. Recent work on object itineraries extends and challenges many elements of the biography approach and represents an intersection with critical interventions regarding materiality and agency, networks and circulation, and heritage discourses. This review evaluates the legacy of The Social Life of Things in the context of anthropological studies of the material world and suggests that thinking about itineraries rather than biographies allows us to collapse the distinctions between past and present (and future) and, thus, fully consider objects’ present entanglements as central to their story.

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Laakkonen, Riku. "The art of expressive objects supporting agency in palliative care." Applied Theatre Research 8, no. 1 (July 1, 2020): 107–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/atr_00029_1.

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I have been developing a model for how to use animated objects when meeting a palliative care patient and I have noticed that during these animated moments in the hospice, performing objects have represented different sites of humanity. At their best, these moments have created a performance from the patient’s story that has become shared. Moments of animation in the hospice are meetings between me and a person who is in palliative care. I have facilitated our meeting and brought a suitcase full of everyday objects with me. A patient is given a story and then cast in their own story with objects they have chosen. Meetings with patients in palliative care made me think about patients moral agency. A moral agent is a being who consciously puts moral activities into practice. Expressive objects telling stories for a patient is one place where moral agency survives in the hospice setting and where a palliative care patient can act for a while as a member of a moral community. In this article, I share my model of expressive objects related to my practice.

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Marsh, Kate, and Lee Miller. "Objects of curiosity: In conversation with Kate Marsh." Choreographic Practices 12, no. 1 (July 1, 2021): 91–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/chor_00030_7.

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Gerken, Adam. "Examining the Administrative Unworkability of Final Agency Action Doctrine as Applied to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act." Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law, no. 8.2 (2019): 477. http://dx.doi.org/10.36640/mjeal.8.2.examining.

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The application of the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”) to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (“NAGPRA”) creates unique practical and doctrinal results. When considering the application of the current law concerning judicial review of final agency action under the APA to NAGPRA, it is evident that the law is simultaneously arbitrary and unclear. In the Ninth Circuit’s holding in Navajo Nation v. U.S. Department of the Interior, the Court applied final agency action doctrine in a manner that was legally correct but administratively unworkable. The Court’s opinion contravenes both the reasoning behind the APA final agency action doctrine and the purposes of both NAGPRA and the APA. The holding further allows for a finding of a final agency action despite the fact that the application of NAGPRA is the beginning of a process that will result in its own final agency action – the determination of which tribe owns the remains and artifacts. Such a result ignores sensitive issues of cultural patrimony (the identification of cultural heritage as to specific sets of remains or sacred object) associated with the NAGPRA inventory process, which requires that Native American remains and sacred objects found on federal land be inventoried by the federal agency that manages that land. The unworkability and legal incoherence of the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Navajo Nation stems from an underlying final agency action doctrine developed to protect property rights that fails to properly consider the unique context of cultural heritage rights implicated by statutes such as NAGPRA. These rights involve the recognition that human remains and ceremonial objects belong to a specific culture. The application of final agency action doctrine invites legal claims before anyone can adequately determine what culture the remains and artifacts belong to. Because of this, the courts or Congress must develop an alternative set of rules to be used when dealing with a final agency action that implicates the cultural heritage rights associated with ancient remains and sacred objects. Such an action would account for the unique nature of the rights in question. Doing so would make administrative agencies better equipped to provide inclusive protections to minority cultures in the performance of their duties.

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Caronia, Letizia, and Vittoria Colla. "Objects that matter." Language and Dialogue 11, no. 1 (April 22, 2021): 8–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ld.00082.car.

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Abstract It has been two decades since the social-material turn in social interaction studies proved the heuristic limits of a logocentric analytical geography. In this paper, we focus on the performative function of objects in an underexplored learning activity: parent-assisted homework. Adopting a Conversation Analysis informed approach complemented by the ventriloquial perspective on communication, we illustrate how parent-assisted homework is accomplished through the multiple resources in the semiotic field. Particularly, we show how participants orient to and exploit the agency of materiality in interaction. In the conclusion we raise a socio-pedagogical issue concerning the cultural capital embedded in the learning environment as well as the parents’ competence in recognizing and exploiting it in ways that are aligned with the school culture.

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Soeprijadi, R. Slamet. "Land Rights Execution as a Pledge Object Based on MoU with PT. Pegadaian at the Office of Agrarian Affairs Ministry and National Land Agency." Journal La Sociale 1, no. 6 (December 4, 2020): 8–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.37899/journal-la-sociale.v1i6.179.

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Cooperation Agreement between the Production Director of PT Pegadaian (Persero) and the Secretary General of the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/National Land Agency Number 352/S-00015.02/2018, Number 31/SKB-100/IV/2018. The content of the agreement is that the land certificate, especially productive land belonging to agriculture, can be used as collateral for which a mortgage is imposed in PT Pegadaian (Persero). The imposition of a certificate of land rights as collateral for a mortgage is interesting to discuss by discussing the problem of objects as collateral and the imposition and execution of collateral object rights when the debtor defaults, a conclusion is obtained as follows: Objects as collateral and the imposition, that the types of objects are distinguished between movable objects and non-movable objects. If the differentiation of objects is used as collateral, there is also a distinction. A movable object which is charged with a pledge, is required to transfer of ownership right from the giver to the recipient with the threat of cancellation if the delivery is not made. Non-movable objects are burdened with mandatory register of mortgage rights at the Land Office, the Land Office will issue a certificate of mortgage right which has the power of evidence as a court decision which has permanent legal force. Execution of the collateral object rights when the debtor defaults, if the debtor defaults does not carry out his/her obligation to pay off the debt, then at the pledge, the creditor can execute based on the provisions of Article 1150 B.W., while in the mortgage right if the debtor defaults and does not fulfill obligations voluntarily can execute according to the provisions of Article 14 UUHT (Mortgage Rights to Land and Land-Related Objects).

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Caballero, Ferdinand Dionisio. "‘Sacred’ Icons from Below as Objects of Anthropological Inquiries: A Reflexive Synthesis." Cognizance Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 3, no. 4 (April 30, 2023): 52–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.47760/cognizance.2023.v03i04.007.

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This reflexive article argues the validity of ‘sacred’ icons as potential objects of anthropological inquiries. The first component of this paper will present works of anthropologists that include icons of saints as subjects. Moreover, this component will highlight the importance of specific social contexts that make these icons socially relevant and worthy of anthropological scrutiny. Furthermore, each anthropological work will serve as grounding for the second component of this paper, in which I will link Sherry Ortner’s (2006) two- field types of agency, which are agency of intentions, and agency of power to the icons of saints in postcolonial settings.

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Roberts, Mary. "Networked Objects." International Journal of Middle East Studies 45, no. 3 (July 30, 2013): 570–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743813000500.

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Over the last decade an approach to 19th-century visual culture that focuses on cross-cultural contact and exchange has begun to supplement an earlier model of Orientalist critique focused primarily on the iconographic analysis of European Orientalist tropes and stereotypes. In this essay I engage with these discussions by analyzing what I will call networked objects. Tracking the mobility of art works and artifacts across cultural boundaries and their differing signification in varying sites of reception impels a nuanced understanding of how visual culture has been implicated in these networks of power. Influenced by anthropological debates, my approach focuses on the circulation of images and objects across cultures and within the region, exploring their function at divergent sites. Social networks of artists and patrons facilitated the transplantation of ideas and images, but the meanings of networked objects morphed independently of authorship according to their displacement to new geographic locations. Networked objects were also entangled within patterns of misinterpretation, blockage, and rupture as visual forms were created, reshaped, or productively misinterpreted in the environments into which they were transplanted, thus provoking challenges from the peripheries and divergent forms of indigenous agency.

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Zirra, Maria. "Shelf Lives: Nonhuman Agency and Seamus Heaney’s Vibrant Memory Objects." Parallax 23, no. 4 (October 2, 2017): 458–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2017.1374516.

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Budge, Kylie, and Alli Burness. "Museum objects and Instagram: agency and communication in digital engagement." Continuum 32, no. 2 (June 14, 2017): 137–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2017.1337079.

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Bautista, Julius. "On the Personhood of Sacred Objects: Agency, Materiality and Popular Devotion in the Roman Catholic Philippines." Religions 12, no. 7 (June 22, 2021): 454. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12070454.

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This paper is an analysis of the Santo Niño de Cebu, a statue of the child Jesus that is the object of widespread popular devotion among Roman Catholics in the Philippines. The central hypothesis is that a continuing challenge of Roman Catholicism in the Philippines, at least from the perspective of the institutional Church, lies not in the extra liturgical performance of its rituals, but rather in the popular belief that sacred objects possess agency and personhood. The discussion of this theme unfolds over three analytical movements. The focus of the initial section is on the historical context in which the Santo Niño became established as the preeminent religious and cultural icon of the Philippines, going as far back as the sixteenth century. The discussion shifts to the topic of the agency of material objects, as cultivated in the performance of three embodied rituals conducted by thousands of Santo Niño devotees. A third analytical movement is the examination of how popular belief in the Santo Niño’s agency intersects with the institutional reforms of the Second Vatican Council, particularly as locally contextualized and enacted in the Second Plenary Council of the Philippines (PCP II) in 1991.

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Gerwin, Martin. "Causality and Agency: A Refutation of Hume." Dialogue 26, no. 1 (1987): 3–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0012217300042268.

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In Book I of the Treatise of Human Nature, Hume examines the idea of necessary connection, which, he observes, forms an indispensable part of our idea of cause and effect. He concludes:The idea of necessity arises from some impression. There is no impression convey'd by our senses, which can give rise to that idea. It must, therefore, by deriv'd from some internal impression, or impression of reflexion. There is no internal impression which has any relation to the present business, but that propensity, which custom produces, to pass from an object to the idea of its usual attendant. This therefore is the essence of necessity. Upon the whole, necessity is something, that exists in the mind, not in objects; nor is it possible for us ever to form the most distant idea of it, consider'd as a quality in bodies. Either we have no idea of necessity, or necessity is nothing but that determination of the thought to pass from causes to effects and from effects to causes, according to their experienced union.

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Teidearu, Tenno. "Material Agency of Crystals in New Spirituality." Ethnologia Fennica 50, no. 1 (June 8, 2023): 168–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.23991/ef.v50i1.120977.

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This paper studies crystals in New Spirituality in Estonia not only as things, or objects, used in certain practices, but also as agentive materials. My research participants, who wear crystals, take their material properties seriously, finding the properties to have supportive qualities, according to esoteric interpretation. Nevertheless, things and materials, objects and minerals, are never permanent; they have material lives of their own. Sometimes minerals lose their gloss, crack, break or just become lost. Physical decay and displacement, which are the focus of this paper, have meaning-making potential, which my interlocutors interpret within the framework of the esoteric. Their perception of these minerals can be understood in posthumanist and new materialist terms. The paper uses the concept of material agency to demonstrate how natural processes of decay acquire cultural meaning by connecting material properties and human interpretation. This work was supported by an Estonian Research Council grant (PUT number PRG670), ‘Vernacular Interpretations of the Incomprehensible: Folkloristic Perspectives Towards Uncertainty’.

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Salmaso, Francesco, Mirko Trisolini, and Camilla Colombo. "A Machine Learning and Feature Engineering Approach for the Prediction of the Uncontrolled Re-Entry of Space Objects." Aerospace 10, no. 3 (March 17, 2023): 297. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10030297.

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The continuously growing number of objects orbiting around the Earth is expected to be accompanied by an increasing frequency of objects re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere. Many of these re-entries will be uncontrolled, making their prediction challenging and subject to several uncertainties. Traditionally, re-entry predictions are based on the propagation of the object’s dynamics using state-of-the-art modelling techniques for the forces acting on the object. However, modelling errors, particularly related to the prediction of atmospheric drag, may result in poor prediction accuracies. In this context, we explored the possibility of performing a paradigm shift, from a physics-based approach to a data-driven approach. To this aim, we present the development of a deep learning model for the re-entry prediction of uncontrolled objects in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The model is based on a modified version of the Sequence-to-Sequence architecture and is trained on the average altitude profile as derived from a set of Two-Line Element (TLE) data of over 400 bodies. The novelty of the work consists in introducing in the deep learning model, alongside the average altitude, and three new input features: a drag-like coefficient (B*), the average solar index, and the area-to-mass ratio of the object. The developed model was tested on a set of objects studied in the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) campaigns. The results show that the best performances are obtained on bodies characterised by the same drag-like coefficient and eccentricity distribution as the training set.

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Rotman, A. "The Erotics of Practice: Objects and Agency in Buddhist Avadana Literature." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 71, no. 3 (September 1, 2003): 555–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfg077.

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Lundell, Eleonora A. "Exú’s Work – The Agency of Ritual Objects in Southeast Brazilian Umbanda." Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 10, no. 1 (June 1, 2016): 43–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jef-2016-0003.

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AbstractThis article* concentrates on the material side of religious intimacy in Afro-Brazilian Umbanda through an ‘ontographic’ perspective as well as looking at materiality as evidence. It is based on an eleven-month fieldwork period among devotees, clients and individual practitioners of Umbanda in Southeast Brazilian metropolises, especially in São Paulo. In people’s experiences of spiritual work (trabalho) and spiritual development (desenvolvimento) carried out with Exús – guardians, guides and protectors who have, after their death, returned in order to work for people’s wellbeing – ritual objects (such as bodies, clothes, beverages, herbs, cigarettes, candles, songs) are seen as constitutive in knowledge production and life transformation. The central claim in this article is that diverse material and immaterial objects through which Exús interact and materialise, are neither primarily symbolic nor representative, but are re-configurative.

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Meissner, Amy. "Material Agency and Mutual Transformation: Found Objects as Materials for Making." Journal of Modern Craft 17, no. 1 (January 2, 2024): 21–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17496772.2024.2316486.

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Conneller, Chantal. "Becoming deer. Corporeal transformations at Star Carr." Archaeological Dialogues 11, no. 1 (June 2004): 37–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1380203804001357.

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This article examines the role of red deer antler ‘masks’ recovered from the Early Mesolithic site of Star Carr in northern England. It explores the agency of animals and the type of agency attributable to objects made from parts of animals at the site. When humans use or wear objects that are made from animal parts, I argue that there are also important implications for the way in which the human body is conceived. This article goes on to explore the types of body produced from the taking on of objects made from animal remains and the implications that this has for the ways both humans and animals were perceived during the Mesolithic.

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Mould, Oli. "The spark, the spread and ethics: Towards an object-orientated view of subversive creativity." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 37, no. 3 (January 19, 2019): 468–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775818822830.

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This paper articulates the subversive and political potential of an object-orientated view of urban creativity. Drawing upon object-orientated philosophies, it further develops the political and subversive potential of the creativity rhetoric to argue that nonhuman material agency is an important factor in propelling subversive behaviour into sustained political change. By focusing on the agency of objects and their ability to challenge our own behaviour in the city, the paper posits a three-stage articulation of subversive creativity; the spark, the spread and ethics. From this, the paper argues that creativity can be posited less as a mechanism of change that is all too often co-opted and reappropriated by normalising forces, but as a subversive force that has a potential to create alternative and sustained political subjectivities.

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Sillar, Bill. "The Social Agency of Things? Animism and Materiality in the Andes." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19, no. 3 (October 2009): 367–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774309000559.

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A major focus of inter-disciplinary debate has been the need to bridge the Cartesian divide between people as active subjects and inert passive objects, to better reflect how things provoke and resist human actions through their ‘secondary agency’. Many Central Andean people express a deep concern about their relationship with places and things, which they communicate with through daily work and rituals involving ‘sympathetic magic’. A consideration of Andean animism emphasizes how agency is located in the social relationship people have with the material world and how material objects can have social identities.

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Ma, Lili, and Daoxian Zhong. "The Agency of Matter in Brian Castro’s The Garden Book." Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures 6, no. 2 (December 28, 2022): 44–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202202005.

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This paper examines the non-human actants in Brian Castro’s novel The Garden Book, including nature, the human body, and human artifacts in light of Jane Bennett’s theory of vibrant matter and Castro’s own arguments about the status of objects. Castro subverts the life-matter binary in this novel, giving attentiveness and respect to material powers, as well as affect and empathy to objects, thus undermining anthropocentrism. In a pandemic era in which humans and non-humans are seen as more interconnected than ever, such empowerment and understanding are not only significant, but also necessary to build a harmonized community.

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Hamarneh, Basema. "Marble as votive offering? Social agency in the post‑Classical Levant." Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 32, no. 1 (2023): 225–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.37343/uw.2083-537x.pam32.1.09.

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This paper combines archaeology and written sources to examine the ways in which marble was used in the churches of the southern Levant in Late Antiquity. In particular, by analyzing the displays of these offerings within the church, and the types of texts engraved on them, it focuses on how, and to what extent, marble donations reflected social position, patronage, and identity. Most of the objects considered here bear inscriptions expressing devotion to saints, martyrs, and prophets, as well as a few quotations from Scripture, but overall, most reflect prayers and invocations by community members. The study therefore attempts to identify the genre of these texts and the objects they adorn to establish the relationship between donation and donor and to provide an analysis of the distribution of these objects within the church proper in the broader regional context of the Late Antique Levant.

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DOBSON, RACHAEL. "Power, Agency, Relationality and Welfare Practice." Journal of Social Policy 44, no. 4 (July 10, 2015): 687–705. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279415000318.

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AbstractThis article argues that constructions of social phenomena in social policy and welfare scholarship think about the subjects and objects of welfare practice in essentialising ways, with negativistic effects for practitioners working in ‘regulatory’ contexts such as housing and homelessness practice. It builds into debates about power, agency, social policy and welfare by bringing psychosocial and feminist theorisations of relationality to practice research. It claims that relational approaches provide a starting point for the analysis of empirical practice data, by working through the relationship between the individual and the social via an ontological unpicking and revisioning of practitioners' social worlds.

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Wagemann, Johannes, and Jonas Raggatz. "First-person dimensions of mental agency in visual counting of moving objects." Cognitive Processing 22, no. 3 (April 5, 2021): 453–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10339-021-01020-x.

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AbstractCounting objects, especially moving ones, is an important capacity that has been intensively explored in experimental psychology and related disciplines. The common approach is to trace the three counting principles (estimating, subitizing, serial counting) back to functional constructs like the Approximate Number System and the Object Tracking System. While usually attempts are made to explain these competing models by computational processes at the neural level, their first-person dimensions have been hardly investigated so far. However, explanatory gaps in both psychological and philosophical terms may suggest a methodologically complementary approach that systematically incorporates introspective data. For example, the mental-action debate raises the question of whether mental activity plays only a marginal role in otherwise automatic cognitive processes or if it can be developed in such a way that it can count as genuine mental action. To address this question not only theoretically, we conducted an exploratory study with a moving-dots task and analyze the self-report data qualitatively and quantitatively on different levels. Building on this, a multi-layered, consciousness-immanent model of counting is presented, which integrates the various counting principles and concretizes mental agency as developing from pre-reflective to increasingly conscious mental activity.

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Turri, John. "Exceptionalist naturalism: Human agency and the causal order." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 71, no. 2 (January 1, 2018): 396–410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1251472.

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This paper addresses a fundamental question in folk metaphysics: How do we ordinarily view human agency? According to the transcendence account, we view human agency as standing outside of the causal order and imbued with exceptional powers. According to a naturalistic account, we view human agency as subject to the same physical laws as other objects and completely open to scientific investigation. According to exceptionalist naturalism, the truth lies somewhere in between: We view human agency as fitting broadly within the causal order while still being exceptional in important respects. In this paper, I report seven experiments designed to decide between these three competing theories. Across a variety of contexts and types of action, participants agreed that human agents can resist outcomes described as inevitable, guaranteed, and causally determined. Participants viewed non-human animal agents similarly, whereas they viewed computers, robots, and simple inanimate objects differently. At the same time, participants judged that human actions are caused by many things, including psychological, neurological, and social events. Overall, in folk metaphysics, human and non-human animals are viewed as exceptional parts of the natural world.

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