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The Viscous: Slime, Stickiness, Fondling, Mixtures

datacite.subject.fos oecd::Humanities
dc.contributor.author Mason
dc.date.accessioned 2023-07-25T02:10:47Z
dc.date.available 2023-07-25T02:10:47Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.description Punctum Books - CC-BY-NC - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2353861 - 274 pages
dc.description.abstract Slime, goo, gunge, gloop, gels, sols, globules, jellies, emulsions, greases, soaps, syrups, glues, lubricants, liquid crystals, moulds, plasmas, and protoplasms – the viscous is not one thing, but rather a quality of resistance and flow, of stickiness and slipperiness. It is a state of matter that oozes into the gaps of our everyday existence, across age groups, between cultures and disciplines.Since the large-scale extraction of petroleum in the 19th century, the viscous has witnessed a proliferation in the variety of its forms. Mechanized industry required lubricants and oil distillation produced waste products that were refined to form Vaseline. From this age, new viscous forms and technologies emerged: products from plastic (and plastic explosives) to cosmetics, glycerine, asphalt, sexual lubrication, hydro- and aero-gels, and even anti-climb paint.Based on unique and wide-ranging research, The Viscous is the first major investigation of encounters with and possibilities of the viscous over the course of the last century, not simply as a material state, but also as an imaginative event. We enter into a story of matter at its most wayward, deviant, hesitant, and resistant.From asphalt lakes to industrial molasses tanks, from liquid crystals squirming in our screens to milk fetishes, The Viscous discloses gooeyness as a peculiarly modern phase of matter. "Everything oozes," as Beckett’s Estragon famously proclaims in Waiting for Godot. Viscous dynamics are exposed as not only hugely various in a post-industrial age, but particularly useful ways of thinking, feeling, writing, and making in a time of ecological anxiety.
dc.identifier.isbn 978-1-95019-287-8
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.vlu.edu.vn:443/handle/123456789/6444
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.subject General Science
dc.subject Philosophy
dc.subject Art & Art History
dc.title The Viscous: Slime, Stickiness, Fondling, Mixtures
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