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urn:uuid:6852ffab-b996-4d80-a8c6-67be81eb9d20 03 01 01 urn:uuid:6852ffab-b996-4d80-a8c6-67be81eb9d20 15 9781912729029 06 10.28938/9781912729012 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Boxes A Field Guide 1 B01 Susanne Bauer 2 B01 Martina Schlünder 3 B01 21 0000-0002-1940-8116 Maria Rentetzi 01 eng 00 628 03 10 SOC002000 10 SOC071000 10 SOC041000 03 00 A book full of boxes. A box in itself. An unboxing. This book explores boxes in their broadest sense and size. It invites us to step into the field, unravel how and why things are contained and how it might be otherwise. By turning the focus of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to boxing practices, this collation of essays examines boxes as world-making devices.Gathered in the format of a field guide, it offers an introduction to ways of ordering the world, unpacking their boxed-up, largely invisible politics and epistemics. Performatively, pushing against conventional uses of academic books, this volume is about rethinking taken-for-granted formats and infrastructures of scholarly ordering – thinking, writing, reading. It diverges from encyclopedic logics and representative overviews of boxing practices and the architectural organization of monographs and edited volumes through a single, overarching argument.This book asks its users to leave well-trodden paths of linear and comprehensive reading and invites them to read sideways, creating their own orders through associations and relating. Thus, this book is best understood as an intervention, a beginning, an open box, a slim volume that needs expansion and further experiments with ordering by its users. 04 00 List of Figures 9 Contributors 16 Boxing Practices 25 Preface and Acknowledgements 26 ____ Introductions 1 · The Generative Possibilities of the Wrong Box. Martina Schlünder, 29 2 · The Epistemology of the Familiar: A Hymn to Pandora. Maria Rentetzi, 37 3 · Navigation Tools for Studying Boxes: A User's Manual. Susanne Bauer, 45 I · TRAP 4 · Inscribing the Soul: Cerebral Ventricles as Symbolic and Material Boxes. Jameson Kismet Bell, 55 5 · Better Shelter. Emily Brownell, 73 6 · Slide Box: How to Stock Some Thousand Cancer Cases. Ulrich Mechler, 93 7 · System Box (Tray) with Wasp. Tahani Nadim, 109 II · JUKE 8 · Thinking Inside the Box: The Construction of Knowledge in a Miniature Seventeenth-Century Cabinet. Stephanie Bowry, 127 9 · Musical Instrument Boxes. Hidden Information: Cases for Musical Instruments and Their Functions. Beatrix Darmstädter, 145 10 · Boxing Crickets: A Taxonomy of Containers for Singing and Fighting Ensifera. Martina Siebert, 157 III · TIME 11 · Contesting the Box: Museums and Repatriation. Stewart Allen, 169 12 · Archaeology and Cigarettes: 'Ekphora' and 'Periphora' of the Archaeological Identity through Cigarette Packs. Styliana Galiniki and Eleftheria Akrivopoulou, 187 13 · More than a Toy Box: Dandanah and the Sea of Stories. Artemis Yagou, 203 IV · CARGO 14 · The Ur-Box: Multispecies Take-off from Noah's Ark to Animal Air Cargo. Nils Güttler, Martina Schlünder, Susanne Bauer, 215 15 · Parcels Render Neglected People Visible. Tanja Hammel, 231 16 · Boxes, Infrastructure and the Materiality of Moral Relations: Aid and Respect after Cyclone Pam. Alexandra Widmer, 241 V · BLACK 17 · 'As Modern as Tomorrow': The Medicine Cabinet. Deanna Day, 255 18 · The Green Minna: Transporting Police Detainees in Imperial Berlin. Eric J. Engstrom, 271 19 · Scaling Up from the Bench: Fermentation Tank. Victoria Lee, 289 20 · Deep Time History: The Lure of the Black Box. Dagmar Schäfer, 307 VI · TEXT 21 · Panels and Frames: Toward a New Relationship between Text and Image in Academic Writing. Pit Arens and Martina Schlünder, 327 22 · Analogue Privacy: The Paper Shredder as a Technology for Knowledge Destruction. Sarah Blacker, 365 VII · ICE 23 · Biobank Boxes: Technologies of Population. Susanne Bauer, 381 24 · The Magic of Dropbox, its Virtuality and Materiality. Shih-Pei Chen, 397 VIII · ANXIETY 25 · Domestic Reservoirs: Managing Drinking Water in Taiwanese Households. Yi-Ping Cheng, 409 26 · Keep Calm and Carry One: The Civilian Gas Mask Case and its Containment of British Emotions. Mats Fridlund, 425 27 · Cardboard Box: The Politics of Materiality. Maria Renetzi, 443 IX · COUNT 28 · Petri dish (boîte de Petri, Petrischale). Mathias de Grote, 459 29 · Prussian Census Box: Moving and Freezing Data. Christine von Oertzen, 473 30 · Black-Boxing Knowledge: Glass Dosimeters and Governmental Control. Maria Rentetzi, 481 X · MIRROR 31 · The Mirror Trap. Etienne S. Benson, 493 32 · Shifting Medical Bottles: In Between Medical and Indigenous Worlds. Johanna Gonçalves Martín, 505 33 · Guarding the Memory: Photographic Glass Plates Negatives' Boxes. Mirka Palioura, Spyridoula Pyrpili, Myrto Vouleli, 525 34 · Lousy Research: The History of Typhus Vaccine Production, 1915 - 1945. Martina Schlünder, 539 XI · TOOL 35 · The Mechanic's Toolbox and Tool Chest: A Nexus of the Personal and the Social. Don Duprez, 559 36 · Surgeons' Chests from the Mary Rose. Hanako Endo, 571 37 · Ruminations on an Electrotherapeutic Box. Jan Eric Olsén, 583 38 · Reliquary: A Box for a Relic. Lucy Razzall, 597 39 · The Research Box. Bonnie Mak and Julia Pollack, 607 20 00 Open Access Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester, UK 04 01 20200812 13 15 9781912729012 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/boxes 99 01 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.matteringpress.org/10.28938/9781912729012.pdf 99 01