Going against the flow: Reaction to Veronica Strang

• In her discussion article Fluid consistencies. Material relationality in human engagements with water', Veronica Strang argues that water provides a useful focus for thinking about relationships between things and persons and between material properties and meanings' (Strang 2014, 133, emphasis added). Water permeates organic things and flows and connects in a multi-scalar way. Therefore her article emphasizes how material and social processes combine to provide both fluidity and consistency at every level of human-non-human engagement' (ibid., 133). Ontologically speaking, the emphasis on fluid relations and processes makes her a relationist, i.e. objects emerge from their internal or external relations (Harman 2009). I will summarize my reactions to her article in three major points.

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HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology (hsv//eng)

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