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Bill Brown
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      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 bourgcois 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, muscum 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-provoking 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Bill Brown EAN: 9780226076126 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-04-01 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, English, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Cultural studies

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      Bill Brown is professor of English at the University of Chicago, coeditor of Critical Inquiry, and author of A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
      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 bourgcois 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, muscum 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-provoking 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Bill Brown EAN: 9780226076126 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-04-01 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      United States of America, USA, English, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Cultural studies

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      Bill Brown is professor of English at the University of Chicago, coeditor of Critical Inquiry, and author of A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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