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a| 2003024508

a| 0226076113

a| 9780226076119

a| 0226076121

a| 9780226076126

a| 9780226076126

a| 99808185953

a| (OCoLC)53443165 z| (OCoLC)56436327 z| (OCoLC)877706925 z| (OCoLC)1022620006

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a| pcc

a| ZVPA

a| GN406 b| .T45 2004

a| Things / c| edited by Bill Brown

a| Chicago : b| University Of Chicago Press, c| ©2004

a| 471 pages : b| illustrations (some color) ; c| 24 cm

a| text b| txt 2| rdacontent

a| unmediated b| n 2| rdamedia

a| volume b| nc 2| rdacarrier

a| Includes bibliographical references and index

a| 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

a| "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"-- Provided by publisher

a| BGCFOLIO

a| Material culture x| Philosophy

a| Brown, Bill, d| 1958- e| editor

3| Table of contents u| http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0411/2003024508.html z| Table of contents

3| Publisher description u| http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi051/2003024508.html z| Publisher description

3| Contributor biographical information u| http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/uchi051/2003024508.html z| Contributor biographical information