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Brown, Jason W., and Maria Pachalska. "AGENCY AND FREEDOM." Acta Neuropsychologica 20, no. 2 (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 an

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Castro, Brian. "Melancholy Objects: Flaubert's Double Agency." Australian Journal of French Studies 48, no. 3 (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 (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 int

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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 produc

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Weir, Simon. "Living and Nonliving Occasionalism." Open Philosophy 3, no. 1 (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

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Wilcox, Jonathan. "Objects That Object, Subjects That Subvert: Agency in Exeter Book Riddle 5." Humanities 11, no. 2 (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

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TAYLOR, CAROLE ANNE. "Positioning Subjects and Objects: Agency, Narration, Relationality." Hypatia 8, no. 1 (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 (2023): 110–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/728343.

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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 (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 organizat

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Chatterjee, Deepsikha. "Agentic Aharya: Vibrant masks from South Asia." Studies in Costume & Performance 6, no. 2 (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

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Baranovas, Ruslanas. "Virtuality and the Problem of Agency in Object-Oriented Ontology." Open Philosophy 3, no. 1 (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 tha

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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 interd

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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 (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 contrib

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Lindstrøm, Torill Christine. "Agency ‘in itself’. A discussion of inanimate, animal and human agency." Archaeological Dialogues 22, no. 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

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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 c

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Walters, Holly, Donna Yates, Simon Mackenzie, and Diāna Bērziņa. "Ritual Misdeeds and Dutiful Transgressions." Nature and Culture 20, no. 1 (2025): 55–76. https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2025.200104.

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Abstract This article explores the role of sacred fossils, specifically ammonites called “Shaligrams,” in criminal acts and norm violations. It challenges conventional theories of criminal motivation via object agency, where nonhuman entities significantly impact crime conceptualization and perpetration. Originating from Nepal, Shaligrams are revered as living manifestations of Hindu gods and possess unique agency that influences human behavior. The relationships that humans form with Shaligrams blur the lines between rational human choice and response to the needs and desires of “agentic” obj

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Spahn, Andreas. "Digital Objects, Digital Subjects and Digital Societies: Deontology in the Age of Digitalization." Information 11, no. 4 (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 te

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Burns, Maureen. "Delicious Market Devices: Abc Magazines Media Kits." Media International Australia 146, no. 1 (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

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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 (2017): 181–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2017.1338047.

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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 (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 grou

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Suwardi. "Mass Certification Policy for Community Land Objects." International Journal of Scientific Multidisciplinary Research 1, no. 10 (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

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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 signifi

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Laakkonen, Riku. "The art of expressive objects supporting agency in palliative care." Applied Theatre Research 8, no. 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 objec

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Bauer, Alexander A. "Itinerant Objects." Annual Review of Anthropology 48, no. 1 (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,

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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 (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 (2011): 78–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10015-011-0891-2.

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Marsh, Kate, and Lee Miller. "Objects of curiosity: In conversation with Kate Marsh." Choreographic Practices 12, no. 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 con

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Seroussi, Edwin. "A Moroccan Piyyut, a Hasidic Nign , an Austrian Intellectual, Israeli TV: Unbounded Modern Jewish Mobility and the Agency of Objects." AJS Review: The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies 49, no. 1 (2025): 136–53. https://doi.org/10.1353/ajs.2025.a958080.

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Abstract: A musical image included in Ludwig August Frankl's Nach Jerusalem! (1858) triggers an investigation into a widespread network of agents connected through an abiotic object. Departing from the hypothetical possibility of the agency of objects, I show how subjects unrelated to each other on the surface—a Moroccan Hebrew poet, Hasidic immigrants to the Land of Israel, Sephardim moving from the Ottoman Empire to central Europe, an Austrian Jewish intellectual on a colonial philanthropic mission, contemporary Hasidic music connoisseurs, and Israeli scholars of the modern Hebrew song—inter

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Caronia, Letizia, and Vittoria Colla. "Objects that matter." Language and Dialogue 11, no. 1 (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 materia

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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 (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 imp

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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 (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

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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 (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 cont

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Zirra, Maria. "Shelf Lives: Nonhuman Agency and Seamus Heaney’s Vibrant Memory Objects." Parallax 23, no. 4 (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 (2017): 137–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2017.1337079.

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

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<em>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 agen

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Roberts, Mary. "Networked Objects." International Journal of Middle East Studies 45, no. 3 (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 network

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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 there

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Teidearu, Tenno. "Material Agency of Crystals in New Spirituality." Ethnologia Fennica 50, no. 1 (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-ma

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Xinyi, Zhang. "Material Entanglements: Identity Collapse and Object Agency in Paul Auster’s City of Glass." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 10, no. 2 (2025): 209–16. https://doi.org/10.22161/ijels.102.35.

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Paul Auster’s City of Glass, a seminal work of postmodern urban literature, unravels the disintegration of Daniel Quinn—a writer who morphs into a detective and ultimately a nameless wanderer—through a labyrinth of material encounters. This paper repositions City of Glass within the framework of new materialism, arguing that Quinn’s identity crisis is not merely a psychological collapse but a material entanglement. By centering the agency of objects—names, the red notebook, and urban spaces—the analysis reveals how nonhuman actors actively co-author Quinn’s subjectivity, reflecting broader ten

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Bakour, Fatah. "TRANSFORMING ARCHITECTURE IN THE POST-DIGITAL ERA: LEVERAGING ACTOR NETWORK THEORY AND SPATIAL AGENCY FOR INTERACTIVE SPACES." New Design Ideas 8, SI (2024): 24–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.62476/ndisi.24.

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The rapid advancement of cutting-edge technologies, such as virtual and augmented reality, is significantly influencing the transformation of the built environment. It has evolved from a static backdrop of activities to an active participant, creating an interactive space that responds to user actions spatial components and environmental data. This transformation has led to the emergence of a socio-technical network where all elements contribute to the interactive environment. Key to this evolution is the spatial agency as a reactive approach that revolutionizes the conceptualization of the bu

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Sillar, Bill. "The Social Agency of Things? Animism and Materiality in the Andes." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19, no. 3 (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 hav

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Conneller, Chantal. "Becoming deer. Corporeal transformations at Star Carr." Archaeological Dialogues 11, no. 1 (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 an

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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 (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 thi

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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 (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 arg

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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 (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

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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 (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 (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 – ritu

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