ABSTRACT
This chapter develops and substantiates the argument that material, stuff and objects have temporalities. In particular, the author explores the idea that such temporalities are not located in or properties of the material itself, but rather that the temporality of stuff is a relational phenomenon situated in between human actors and the material world. The author argues that human action around materials and objects results in reciprocal relations. The chapter focuses the meshing of the individual human subject with the external world in ways that allow that rationalities are multiple, context-specific and weaker than we might be comfortable with or than we might wish politically. In the same vein, the meshing also brings about context-specific temporalities instead of a universalizing idea that time is a money-like resource. The author puts forward a few fragile moments of wooden boating.
