What does it mean to acknowledge one’s closeness to, enmeshment in or even kinship with the material world? And what does it mean to question family structures – the way they organise, coerce and make deviant certain lifeforms – and dwell in other possibilities of kin-making?

Not just a jolly rethinking of objects or a polyamorous romp through relationships, The Material Kinship Reader reckons with the extractavist histories of materials and the social relations that frame much of contemporary life.

Spanning fiction and theory, the collection of texts expand the idea of an artist’s book by bringing words into conversation with an aesthetic proposition. Clementine Edwards’ artwork is the visual weft to the book’s written net. From colonial conquest to climate collapse, The Material Kinship Reader tells toxic and tender stories of interdependence among all things sentient and insentient.

Including contributions by Sara Ahmed, Hana Pera Aoake, Roland Barthes, Joannie Baumgärtner, Heather Davis, Kris Dittel, Clementine Edwards, Ama Josephine B. Johnstone, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Ursula K. Le Guin, Sophie Lewis, Steven Millhauser, Jena Myung, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Michelle Murphy, Ada M. Patterson, Kim TallBear and Michelle Tea

承认一个人对物质世界的亲近、卷入甚至是亲属关系意味着什么？而质疑家庭结构—它们组织、胁迫和使某些生命体变得不正常的方式—并沉浸在亲属关系的其他可能性中又意味着什么？

《The Material Kinship Reader》不仅仅是对物品的快乐反思，也不仅仅是对各种关系的多情漫游，它对材料的抽离历史和当代生活的大部分社会关系进行了思考。

跨越小说和理论，这套文本通过将文字与美学主张进行对话，扩展了艺术家书籍的概念。Clementine Edwards的艺术作品是这本书的书面网的视觉纬线。从殖民征服到气候崩溃，《The Material Kinship Reader》讲述了所有有情和无情的事物之间相互依存的有毒和温柔的故事。

包括Sara Ahmed, Hana Pera Aoake, Roland Barthes, Joannie Baumgärtner, Heather Davis, Kris Dittel, Clementine Edwards, Ama Josephine B. Johnstone, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Ursula K. Le Guin, Sophie Lewis, Steven Millhauser, Jena Myung, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Michelle Murphy, Ada M. Patterson, Kim TallBear and Michelle Tea的贡献。