Liedeke Plate is professor of culture and inclusivity at Radboud University, where she researches the relationship between art, culture and inclusion. A cultural theorist at heart, she focuses on literature, gender and cultural memory and publishes internationally on the subject of women, reading and rewriting, forgetting, the material turn in literary and cultural studies, cultural memory, and gender and urban space. The red thread throughout her research is an inquiry into in the mechanisms in art and culture that foster or hinder inclusive thinking.
László Munteán is assistant professor of cultural studies and American studies at Radboud University. His publications have focused on the memorialization of 9/11 in literature and the visual arts, American cities and architecture, as well as the architectural heritage of Budapest. In a broader sense, his scholarly work revolves around the juncture of literature, visual culture, and cultural memory in American and Eastern European contexts.
Airin Farahmand is a Ph.D. candidate at Radboud University, where she also obtained her B.A. in arts and culture studies (cum laude) and her research master's in art and visual culture. Her dissertation project focuses on artworks engaging with the plastic crisis. Before moving to the Netherlands, she completed a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering at Tabriz University. In a broader sense, her research interests include questions of agency, representation, body politics, and feminist future-making.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 7
Preface 11
Introduction: Materials Matter 13
Fig. 1: Dora Maar, Hand-Shell, 1934. London, Tate Modern 36
1. Stitched into Material: On the Makeability of Shells 37
2. Celluloid 45
3. Roman Concrete 55
4. Postclassical Marble: Reclaiming Flux in the Reception of Marble in Contemporary Art 61
5. Asbestos: The Fallout of Shipbreaking in the Global South 75
6. Copper's Suppressed History Unearthed in Otobong Nkanga's Sensual and Embodied Art Practice 83
7. The Coloniality of Materiality: Brazilwood, or Unlearning with Anton de Kom in the Mauritshuis 93
8. Lithium for the Metaverse: Myths of Nuclear and Digital Fusion 103
9. Harnessing the Sun in Tech-on-Climate Discourse 113
10. Dutch Peat 123
11. Milk: Material Entwinements and the Making and Unmaking of Healthy Bodies 133
12. Wool 143
13. Yes, There Are No Bananas 151
14. Coca(ine) 157
15. The Ephemeral Materiality of Sound 169
16. Tracing the Voice's Digital Materiality 173
17. Interface 181
18. Becoming-with: On Textile Companions and Fungi Friends 189
19. Clothing For/Against Walking 197
20. Mylar Foil: Blankets of Silver and Gold 207
Fig. 1: The cover of Thomas Pitfield's The Poetry of Trees (1942). Copyright of the Pitfield Trust. Reproduced with the permission of the Pitfield Trust. 214
21. An Archive of the Future: Wood in Thomas Pitfield's The Poetry of Trees 215
22. Soft Leather, Wounded Buttons, and a Silk Ribbon: Clothing a Birgittine Rule Manuscript 223
Fig. 1: Corridor leading to arts classrooms in school 1. Photograph by the author 236
23. The Arts Classroom 237
24. Ink on Paper 245
25. The Scholar's Coffee 255
List of Contributors 263