Hardesty notes that the book bloc symbolizes not only diminishing prospects of affordable education but the demise of the book as well: "It is a metonym for education at the same time the materiality of the book is being threatened".
In Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space (2001), Elizabeth Grosz explores these conceptual questions about space, time, and materiality by working in the intersections of architecture and philosophy.
Negatively, from a mind having unified consciousness, he held that nothing follows concerning its composition, its identity, especially its identity across time, nor its materiality or immateriality.
None of what I saw in "The Clock" felt tragic, despite the work's obsessive preoccupation with the materiality of time, and its endless ticking away toward an end.
These narratives were then confronted and the cases were qualitatively compared to demonstrate how, over time, the idea and materiality of the private garden have created value and meaning.
Here, and especially in the images based on tree rings, McKenna engages wondrously with the materiality of time.
This is about the life of the book – and the future of the defiant craft of the illustrator and his pencil, "the hand of the artist", as Selznick puts it, in a computer age, and of materiality in a time of virtuality.
"The decision was that it was a new category — we'll see how it goes over time; if it reaches the materiality position then we'll think about it," said Williams in reference to why they didn't disclose sales numbers for the Watch.
For Boxall we now face the immateriality of an increasingly virtual, online world, at the same time as we face the frightening materiality of climate change.
At other times there are shots of brute materiality; in one, a car goes around and around a snow-filled lot where large cable spools sit on end.
