Things / edited by Bill Brown.
Brown, Bill, 1958-
2004
GN406 .T45 2004 (Mapit)
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Title
Things / edited by Bill Brown.
ISBN
9780226076126 (paperback)
0226076121 (paperback)
9780226076119 (hardcover)
0226076113 (hardcover)
Publication Details
Chicago : University Of Chicago Press, ©2004.
Language
English
Description
471 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Call Number
GN406 .T45 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
306
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Brown, Bill, 1958-
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Thing theory / Bill Brown
Shadows and Ephemera / Sidney R. Nagel
Descartes's geometry as spiritual exercise / Matthew L. Jones
Lyric substance: on riddles, materialism, and poetic obscurity / Daniel Tiffany
The defecating duck, or, the ambiguous origins of artificial life / Jessica Riskin
Words and the murder of the thing / Peter Schwenger
Why has critique run out of steam: from matters of fact to matters of concern / Bruno Latour
Fetishizing the glove in Renaissance Europe / Peter Stallybrass and Ann Rosalind Jones
Modern Metamorphoses and disgraceful tales / Jonathan Lamb
Romanticism and the life of things: fossils, totems, and images / W.J.T. Mitchell
The Russian constructivist flapper dress / Christina Kiaer
The romance of caffeine and aluminum / Jeffrey T. Schnapp
Object, relic, fetish, thing: Joseph Beuys and the museum / Charity Scribner
A pebble, a camera, a man who turns into a telegraph pole / John Frow
Fateful attachments: on collecting, fidelity, and Lao She / Rey Chow
"Dying is an art, like everything else" / Michael Taussig
"Paths that wind through the thicket of things" / Lesley Stern
Things on film: Shadows and voice in Wright Morris's field of vision / Alan Trachtenberg.

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