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</U></FONT>This special issue of Transformations examines the various ways in which immateriality is encountered, invoked, conceptualised and investigated in cultural theory and creative practice. “Immateriality,” as a concept and a term, regularly surfaces in a time of well-entrenched materialism. New media arts and the virtual have all been understood, without irony, to be involved in the ephemeral and the immaterial. Forms and forces often imagined as incorporeal, such as spectres and hauntings, provide metaphors for historical and cultural processes. Reflecting on immateriality can be described as a different angle of approach to and re-imagining of matter. In this context the bodied and the disembodied are not opposed but reciprocally permeable. This relationship raises questions about the new places and practices through which immateriality emerges. Immateriality comes to serve new explanatory purposes as it shadows and is reconfigured within changing materialisms. ...<BR>
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NEW IMMATERIALITIES<BR>
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Immateriality, Affectivity, Experimentation: Queer Science and Future-Psychology<BR>
Lisa Blackman<BR>
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Lumumba’s Ghosts: Immaterial Matters and Matters Immaterial in Sven Augustijnen’s Spectres<BR>
Esther Peeren<BR>
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The Heritage Village: Sifting through Immaterial Histories of Land<BR>
Aleksandra Kaminska & Janine Marchessault<BR>
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Towards a Meteorology of the Media<BR>
Stephen Groening<BR>
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Interruptions: Reconsidering the Immaterial in Human Engagements with Technology<BR>
Eleanor Sandry & Michele Willson<BR>
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Observations on Telepathy and the Transference-Love in Freud and Derrida<BR>
Mara Steele<BR>
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