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Things / edited by Bill Brown.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Chicago ; London : University Of Chicago Press, c2004.Description: 471 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0226076121
  • 0226076113
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Contents:
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 / Words and the murder of the things / 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 / Fateful attachments: on collecting, fidelity, and Lao She / Rey Chow -- "Dying is an art, like everything else" / Michael Taussing -- "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.
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; and what has been described as bourgeois longing.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Book Book CGLAS Library Purple 306.46 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 11856

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / Words and the murder of the things / 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 / Fateful attachments: on collecting, fidelity, and Lao She / Rey Chow -- "Dying is an art, like everything else" / Michael Taussing -- "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.

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; and what has been described as bourgeois longing.