DOI: 10.1386/jaws_00046_1 ISSN: 2055-2823

A puppet’s monologue on the possibility of a playful materiality

Roberta Borroni
  • Microbiology (medical)
  • Immunology
  • Immunology and Allergy

This article, written as a puppet show, presents playfulness as a tool that can be used to formulate a new understanding of matter, following the elaboration of this concept by the philosophical movement ‘new materialism’. The relation between human and non-human, together with the boundaries that separate them, is explored through examples of contemporary art practices. The text is shaped in a theatrical and playful manner to test these concepts, considering both their potentialities and risks.

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