@article{892369,
      recid = {892369},
      author = {Brown, Bill,},
      title = {Things /},
      publisher = {University Of Chicago Press,},
      address = {Chicago :},
      pages = {471 pages :},
      year = {2004},
      abstract = {This book is an invitation to think about why children  chew pencils why we talk to our cars, our refrigerators,  our computers rosary beads and worry beads Cuban cigars why  we no longer wear hats that we can tip to one another and  why we don't seem to long to what has been described as  bourgeois longing. It is an invitation to think about the  fetishism of daily life in different times and in different  cultures. It is an invitation to rethink several topics of  critical inquiry--camp, collage, primitivism, consumer  culture, museum culture, the aesthetic object, still life,  "things as they are," Renaissance wonders, "the thing  itself"--Within the rubric of "things," not in an effort to  foreclose the question of what sort of things these seem to  be, but rather to suggest new questions about how objects  produce subjects, about the phenomenology of the material  everyday, about the secret life of things. Based on an  award-winning special issue of the journal Critical  Inquiry, Things features eighteen thought-evoking essays by  contributors including Bill Brown, Matthew L. Jones, Bruno  Latour, W. J. T. Mitchell, Jessica Riskin, Jeffrey T.  Schnapp, Peter Schwenger, Charity Scribner, and Alan  Trachtenberg.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/892369},
}