materiality

Materiality
> A way of thinking about the material in which this is treated as a continuously enacted relational effect. The implication is that materials do not exist in and of themselves, but are endlessly generated and a least potentially reshaped. This is to be distinguished from materialism which, as the antonym of idealism, claims that what is real is material, and that the idea is derives from material arrangements. Materiality makes no //a priori// distinction between the material and the idea. (Law, 2004, p. 159)

Internal links

 * artefact [/artifact/]
 * discourse

Reference
Law, J. (2004). //After method: Mess in social science research// (1st ed.). London; New York: Routledge.