Material Culture Agency in Blessing Objects and Icons
The theory establishes that agency is a distributed network relationship where objects function as "persons" possessing inherent excess and thinness rather than passive tools. This framework posits material culture artifacts undergo sacralization through entanglement, transforming ideas into normative agents or icons without requiring anthropocentric attribution of consciousness to the object itself. It applies within Material Culture Studies and Visual Sociology by reframing human-object interactions as co-constituted biographies where the boundary between creator, creation, and user is porous rather than distinct.
Material Culture Agency in Blessing Objects and Icons
The theory establishes that agency is a distributed network relationship where objects function as "persons" possessing inherent excess and thinness rather than passive tools. This framework posits m…