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Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- PART I Introduction, Study Design, and Theory -- 1 Novelty and Technological Objects -- 1.1 Introducing the RBO Hand and Mirage -- 1.1.1 The RBO Hand and the Development of Robotic Hands -- 1.1.2 Mirage and the Advent of Technologies in Art -- 1.2 Study Design I: Shaking off Taken-for-Granted Labels -- 1.3 Theoretical Perspectives: Invention, Differential Pattern, or Biographical Passage -- 1.3.1 Novelty as Invention -- 1.3.2 Novelty as Differential Pattern -- 1.3.3 Novelty as Biographical Passage -- 1.4 Toward Novelty as Articulation -- 1.4.1 Articulation -- 1.4.2 Figures -- 1.4.3 Technicity -- 1.4.4 Enactment -- 1.5 Study Design II: Abstraction, Critique, and Comparison as Method -- 1.6 Overview of the Study -- PART II Analysis - Three Articulations of Novelty -- 2 Identity: How Loose Elements are Connected -- 2.1 Enacting the Past through Stories and Their Tangible Traces -- 2.1.1 Stories of Deviation -- 2.1.2 Material Traces -- 2.2 Enacting Potentials through Figures, Prototypes, and Bodies -- 2.2.1 Ideas and Their Figures -- 2.2.2 Embodying Material Potentials -- 2.2.3 The Bodily Rendering of Future Objects -- 2.3 Articulating an Object Identity -- 2.3.1 Four Articulations of Ideas -- 2.3.2 Object Identities -- 2.3.3 Novelty as Object Identity -- 3 Form: How Materials Become Effective -- 3.1 Formats and Their Technical Features -- 3.1.1 Technical Features of Robotic Hands -- 3.1.2 Technical Features of Cybernetic Machines -- 3.1.3 Formats and Their Core Functionalities -- 3.2 Hybrid Constellations, Inquiries, and Distributed Agency -- 3.2.1 Robotics Infrastructure and "Everyday Life" in the Laboratory -- 3.2.2 Anticipated Conditions and Inquiries with Open Hardware in the Studio -- 3.2.3 Distributed Agency -- 3.3 Assembling Technical Forms -- 3.3.1 Embodiment as Epistemic and Artistic Stance

"This article proposes reconfiguring comparison as a method for innovation studies. It explores how two objects -a media installation and a robotic hand- are configured as novel through a complexity of materialities, stories, and bodies. In focus are small-scale interactions that signify relations between technological objects and their stories. The methodological approach advanced in this article focuses on the construction of comparability, the perspective from which something is compared, and one's own bodily involvement in co-producing situations. Through two configurative moments, rendering imagined objects and material referencing, this article delineates how the installation and the robotic hand materialise imaginaries and how they articulate stories of their difference. The proposed reconfiguration avows novelty as a concept through which continuities can be drawn, just as it acknowledges the locality of its articulation in different forms. Its perspective is local, as it is immersed in the net of materialities, stories, and bodies, while it moves on and re-arranges what is understood and what needs to be understood." (author's abstract)