Other Things
by Bill Brown /
2016 / English / PDF
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From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the
social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material
culture and the world of things. How should we understand the
force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines?
From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the
social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material
culture and the world of things. How should we understand the
force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines?Other Things
Other Things explores this question by considering a wide
assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers
to skyscrapers—that have fascinated a range of writers and
artists, including Virginia Woolf, Man Ray, Spike Lee, and Don
DeLillo.
explores this question by considering a wide
assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers
to skyscrapers—that have fascinated a range of writers and
artists, including Virginia Woolf, Man Ray, Spike Lee, and Don
DeLillo.
The book ranges across the literary, visual, and plastic arts to
depict the curious lives of things. Beginning with Achilles’s
Shield, then tracking the object/thing distinction as it appears
in the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan, Bill Brown
ultimately focuses on the thingness disclosed by specific
literary and artistic works. Combining history and literature,
criticism and theory,
The book ranges across the literary, visual, and plastic arts to
depict the curious lives of things. Beginning with Achilles’s
Shield, then tracking the object/thing distinction as it appears
in the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan, Bill Brown
ultimately focuses on the thingness disclosed by specific
literary and artistic works. Combining history and literature,
criticism and theory,Other Things
Other Things provides a new way of
understanding the inanimate object world and the place of the
human within it, encouraging us to think anew about what we mean
by materiality itself.
provides a new way of
understanding the inanimate object world and the place of the
human within it, encouraging us to think anew about what we mean
by materiality itself.