Introducing Materialities of Passing

Tim Flohr Sørensen, Peter Bjerregaard, Anders Emil Rasmussen

Abstract

Passing is a matter of transformation, transition and transience. At the precarious and indeterminate borderlands of being and non-being, people, places and things are in motion across dubious, interstitial states of existence. Sometimes, these liminal entities are harnessed by the hope or even promise of a future, of a form of being beyond time, or they may be eclipsed by the prospects of dissolution. Even in the face of terminal existence, whoever or whatever makes the transition thus stands on the verge of emergence, either being subject to an inevitable metamorphosis or leaving behind a void filled with the potential for new beginnings. This volume argues that we may identify passing in more than the colloquial sense of the expression, which refers to human death. We hold that materialities of passing issue forth in numerous instances and forms, constituting a transport between states of being, not being and new configurations of being.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMaterialities of Passing: Transformation, transition and transience
EditorsTim Flohr Sørensen, Peter Bjerregaard, Anders Emil Rasmussen
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date1 Jan 2016
Pages1-23
ISBN (Print)9781472441973
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2016
SeriesStudies in Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time
Volume3

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Anthropology
  • Archaeology
  • Death
  • Burial
  • Grief
  • Memory
  • Philosophy
  • Decay

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