ABSTRACT
Drawing upon four years of ethnographic research in a New York City glassblowing studio in which I learnt to blow glass, this chapter investigates media and materialities in theories of embodied knowledge. Becoming a glassblower is typically explicated along the temporal arc of the development of proficiency with attention to technique, problem-solving, and trial and error. Variously herein, glassblowers refer to hot glass as a medium and material. Turning to intra-corporeality – shared corporeality across human and nonhuman bodies – this chapter reveals how the concept of medium veils its material life, urging a move beyond an onto-epistemology of mediation.
