Things

Bill Brown

Thing Theory

Sydney R. Nagel

Shadows and Ephemera

Matthew L. Jones

Descartes's Geometry as Spiritual Exercise

Daniel Tiffany

Lyric Substance: On Riddles, Materialism, and Poetic Obscurity

Jessica Riskin

The Defecating Duck, or, the Ambiguous Origins of Artificial Life

Peter Schwenger

Words and the Murder of the Thing

Bruno Latour

Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam: From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern

Peter Stallybrass and Ann Rosalind Jones

Fetishizing the Glove in Renaissance Europe                                  

Jonathan Lamb

Modern Metamorphoses and Disgraceful Tales

W. J. T. Mitchell

Romanticism and the Life of Things: Fossils, Totems, and Images

Christina Kiaer

The Russian Constructivist Flapper Dress

Jeffrey T. Schnapp

The Romance of Caffeine and Aluminum

Charity Scribner

Object, Relic, Fetish, Thing: Joseph Beuys and the Museum

John Frow

A Pebble, a Camera, a Man Who Turns into a Telegraph Pole

Rey Chow

Fateful Attachments: On Collecting, Fidelity, and Lao She

Michael Taussig