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3 cultural value. Our presence in CRESC suggested an openness to other ways of working, but at the same time, we each continued to work on these themes in our own way. The objects of our research focus were diverse. Periodically, we came together and listened to what others were absorbed by, we read each other’s work, and took up suggestions of what to read. We began a reading group on Deleuze, we organized seminars on topics of common interest, and slowly the mutual influences grew until (at one of our annual residential meetings) we realized that a powerful common preoccupation was how to approach the presence of objects and materials at a time when, theoretically at least, the self-evidence of such things was overtly in question. We recognized that there were important differences in the way we were approaching the challenges posed by objects and materials. But we were reluctant to explain …