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materiality (Consequence), noun caliber, distinction, eminence, gravity, greatness, import, importance, materialness, matter, memorability, momentousness, notability, notableness, priority, prominence, purport, rank, relevance, salience, significance, substantiality, sum and substance, value, weight, weightiness, worth materiality (Physical existence), noun bodiliness, bodily existence, body, concreteness, corporality, embodiment, entity, essential nature, existence, mass, material existence, materialness, matter, palpability, physiial being, physical nature, physicalness, reality, solidity, substance, substantiality, substantialness, tangibility See also: corpus, importance, magnitude, relevance, significance MATERIALITY. That which is important; that which is not merely of form but
of substance.
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Thus, stamps--contextualized and critically evaluated--provide a venue to engage publics through state materialities. In other words, had we not been producing this edition in multimedia that enables access to primary evidence for the many rather than the few, had we not be collaborating with one another, and had those technologies not in turn created a climate making us much more highly self-conscious about the new materialities of editing in which we were engaged, a solitary authoritative view, however erroneous, would likely have prevailed in this little corner of literary history. And this dilation is an extension and maximization of the equivalence between the surfaces of silver-coated paper and animal hide, fabric fiber, skin grain, not to mention the viscosity of the human gaze, to the point that the transparency of the photograph gives way, not to a single, reductive opacity, but to an expansive meeting between materialities. |
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