The Aesthetic Reflexivity of Material Practice

Abstract

The preceding three Chapters delineate results concerning the main question of this study, how do technological objects articulate novelty? The three articulations of novelty – identity, form, and difference – characterize what novelty is in the becoming of technological objects and capture how an object-character as well as an object’s difference become part of a shared reality. I wrap up the results in the concluding Chapter 6 and discuss in a condensed way what is seen differently through the lens of articulation in contrast to the established perspectives of inventions, differential pattern, and biographical passage.