Thrift _ Beyond Mediation

Nigel Thrift
Beyond Mediation: Three Material Registers and their Consequences

"Though it is true that the surfaces of materiality are being changed in line with the interests of the powerful, I hope to have shown... that what is actually emerging is something much less direct and much more nuanced, a materiality which still retains spaces for contingency, complexity, and a sense of wonder." three material registers, p249