After Childhood: Re-thinking Environment, Materiality and Media in Children’s Lives
DenmarkThinking and doing, after childhoodMethods: researching, after childhoodWriting, after childhoodNotesChildhood studies, after childhood(Post-)childhood studiesThinking and doing (and critiquing), after childhood studiesSpeculative realism and OOOThinking sexuality and race, materiallyThinking (after) generationsConclusion: thinking and doing childhoods, after the ‘post’?Nexus thinking and resource-power: cuts through childhood, cuts through the earthGuaratingueta, January 2016Nexus thinking: telling intractable stories of ‘resource-power’Polycentrism: resource-power and educationEmbodying nexus, embodying resource-power(s): childhoods in and out of focusConclusion: arts of (not) noticingSpeculative childhoods: matters beyond materialitiesIntroductionLuz, Sao Paulo, May 2018Pushing new materialisms to(wards) their limit? Childhoods and/as machines, childhoods and/as hyperobjectsMachinesHyperobjectsPlastic (childhoods): off the island of Roatan, 40 miles north of Honduras, in the Caribbean SeaConclusion: thinking childhood through machines and hyperobjects (and dolls, cobalt and plastic)MediaMedia: visibility, circulation and some stuff about childhoodsAleppo, Syria, August 2016Interfaces between children, young people and (digital) media: rendering objects (and subjects) more or less visible?Childhoods, circulating I: Twitter, an online selling platform and dolls (again)Childhoods, circulating II: artificial intelligence, the loT and infrastructuresConclusionInfra-generations: after-lives, or, what lies beneathWhy generations matter - and how else generations might matterFrom generations and intergenerational relations to infra-generationsFinding children I: after-lives of ‘toys’Biographies of objectsFinding children II: after-lives of an online selling platformCuts into objects: on the importance of ‘damage’Finding children III: after-lives of bonesConclusions: infra-generations, taphonomic childhoods and the offspring of alien phenomenology + speculative TabulationNoteEnergyBalsall Heath, Birmingham, September 2018-March 2019: bricking (it)(Dis)connection, energy’ and educationDiversifying and complexifying energies: from Balsall Heath to BrazilBalsall HeathIsolating energy’ as and beyond ‘resource-power ’ in BrazilTheorising and juxtaposing diverse energetic phenomenaIntractability: juxtaposition-as-praxisEmbodiment: metabolism and expenditureStorying: speculative fabulationConclusion: energetic phenomena, after childhoodNoteSynthesis and stickiness: lives of plastics, metals and other elementsThe Great Burger King Meltdown; or, starting with plasticsStarting with plastics (I): the problem with plasticsAlien phenomenology and after: (instrumental) interfaces, speculation, litany, ontography and metaphorThe totem pole as ontography: starting again with plasticsBeyond plastics: writing from aluminium, titanium and zirconiumPlastic knowledges, plastic experiences: putting children and young people (back) into the mixHabituationMediationInteractionConclusions
