DATE November 1, 2022 ROOMS Library OBJECT TYPES Book chapter, TACK Book FORMS OF TACIT KNOWLEDGE Embedded Knowledge, Embodied Knowledge, Enacted Knowledge, Personal Knowledge, Relational Tacit Knowledge GLOSSARY TERMS Actor-Network, Assemblage Theory, Conceptual Frameworks, Construction, Craft, Labour, Material Culture, New Materialism, Phenomenology, Practice Theory, Reflexivity, Sensuous Perception, Social Media, Theory  RETURN TO ARCHIVE TITLE Coarse epistemes: Skill, craftsmanship and tacit knowledge in the grit of the world AUTHOR Eric Crevels ABSTRACT In the words of Dutch archaeologist Maikel Kuijpers, craft is “a way of exploring and understanding the material world”. This definition suggests that craftsmanship can be understood as a touchstone for a theory of knowledge in material productions. By exploring the role of skill in the processes of making and its epistemic correspondence, I develop the hypothesis that craftsmanship is as a perceptive-cognitive enactment within the making process, a form of attunement with production. The argument is that the material, productive side of work deploys and operates a particular epistemological regime, based on types of practical engagement deeply related to the possibilities and contingencies of objective, concrete reality. Making means implicating oneself with the material world, embedding the body in the processes of transforming matter and partaking in the flows of forces that form things. Thus, the knowledge in the making – skill – can be understood as the invention or establishment of a new mode of perception through action that is enacted by tools, movements, techniques etc. This practical Publishing Platform Menu