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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Introducing Homo Textor – Ellen Harlizius-Klück, Annapurna Mamidipudi, Giovanni Fanfani and Alex McLean
Chapter 2
The technical mode of existence of weaving – Introducing histomorphism, by Ellen Harlizius-Klück
Chapter 3
Merge, weave, house, trap – First steps towards a reverse palaeoanthropology of identity Concepts, by Julian Rohrhuber
Chapter 4
Lost in lexicography – Kaîros as concept of order, by Giovanni Fanfani
Chapter 5
Woven witness – Philomela, Procne and visualised narratives through textiles, by Anthony Tuck, Cole Reilly;,Cinzia Presti and Joseph Capozzi
Chapter 6
The textile expression gap, by Lars Hallnäs
Chapter 7
Modular patterns – A survey of the textile origin of neolithic design and its calculational implications, by Kalliope Sarri
Chapter 8
Poikilia, geometry and living patterns in the Greek archaic and classical mind, by Adeline Grand-Clément
Chapter 9
Epistemic, social, and material ordering through weaving threads, by Annapurna Mamidipudi
Chapter 10
Comparative reflections on Andean weaving as science, by Denise Y. Arnold
Chapter 11
The string: Rewiring women and electronics, by Ebru Kurbak
Chapter 12
Algorithmic patterns on the live loom, by Alex McLean
Chapter 13
Embodying patterns of textile machinery: A dialogue, by Caroline Radcliffe
Chapter 14
Braiding and dancing – Embodied rhythm and the matter of pattern, by Victoria Mitchell
Chapter 15
Untangling knowledge work with a PENELOPEan robot swarm, by David Griffiths