ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 (“Circularities: technical nutrients, hyperobjects, and rooms”) employs three designations of purity—teleological, energetic, and hypermaterial—as well as perspectives from the fields of discard studies and industrial ecology, to reassess upcycling and the circular economy, advocating reuse and repurposing as more serious and radical design stances. Furthermore, if the circular economy still relies on the matter/form dualism, privileging the former’s ability to change (technical nutrients), the nodal economy proposed in this chapter is predicated on the interchangeability of their roles, and on the dissolution of hylomorphism. The chapter also borrows from Jane Hutton (materials as “fragments of other landscapes”), Kiel Moe (buildings as “processes of urbanization”), and Timothy Morton (hyperobjects as “massively distributed in time and space”) to redefine—and extend the scope of—EoIs.
