Consumption

In understanding how social relations were affected by the blackboard, the consumption of boards should be emphasized. Due to a lack of identification of many boards, and particularly historical examples, it is often difficult to trace the producer or the date of manufacture. Thus it is problematic, and unnecessary, to apply any sort of hierarchy to blackboards, in terms of value or historical significance. Their value is revealed through use. Blackboards could be viewed as allographic, a term used by Goodman, in that their value is not revealed through historical uniqueness. (Douglas, 34) They are relatively generic and anonymous until activated by a user. The presence of the human actor in the status of blackboards is crucial. It can be a challenge, however, to quantify or qualify the position of the human element in the material world. Part of this stems from the fact that we live so close to things.

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