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Objects, Places, and Entanglements

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This chapter starts by defining “entanglement” as a way of understanding how human thought and action is shaped by a whole host of non-human factors that we tend to ignore in favour of focusing on the intent of individual subjects. It goes on to show how works of ambient literature are similarly entangled, deriving their meaning from combinations of script, reader activity, objects, and environments, and then how place is also a product of actions and interactions, not neat boundaries. The aim is to explore how works of ambient literature produce their effects and the kinds of questions and possibilities that they raise with both their form and content.

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    Matt Hayler

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  1. Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

    Tom Abba

  2. Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

    Jonathan Dovey

  3. Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK

    Kate Pullinger

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Hayler, M. (2021). Objects, Places, and Entanglements. In: Abba, T., Dovey, J., Pullinger, K. (eds) Ambient Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41456-6_4

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