期刊
THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY
卷 39, 期 2, 页码 3-29出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/02632764211030990
关键词
Anthropocene; continuous matter; duration; flux; hydraulics; rheology; solidity
资金
- British Academy
This issue explores the tension between solidity and fluidity, arguing that matter exists as continuous flux and is both solid and fluid. By advocating for a perspective that starts from our participation in a world of solid fluids, the authors open new paths for theorizing matter and meaning, particularly in the context of ecological crisis.
This issue opens an inquiry into the tension between solidity and fluidity. This tension is ingrained in the Western intellectual tradition and informs theoretical debates across the sciences and humanities. In physics, solid is one phase of matter, alongside liquid, gas and plasma. This, however, assumes all matter to be particulate. Reversing the relation between statics and dynamics, we argue to the contrary, that matter exists as continuous flux. It is both solid and fluid. What difference would it make were we to start from our inescapable participation in a world of solid fluids? Is solid fluidity a condition of being in the midst of things, or of intermediacy on a solid-fluid continuum? Does the world appear fluid in the process of its formation, but solid when you look back on things already formed? Here we open new paths for theorizing matter and meaning at a time of ecological crisis.
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