Homo Textor examines how weaving as a technical mode of existence constitutes conceptual challenges to Homo faber and the way the Moderns (as described by Latour) talk about technology. Contradiction a hylomorphic schema where an actor gives form to matter, the characteristic weaving mode is histomorphic – referring to a generative process where intelligible forms grow out of the three-way interactions of weaver, loom and threads.
Across fifteen fascinating chapters, the authors of Homo Textor further show that histomorphism is not only a technical mode restricted to the craft of weaving, but also a concept that describes and produces a complex type of order traceable by humans across social, formal, cosmological, philosophical and digital dimensions.