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The Object Reader

Edited by Raiford Guins, FIONA CANDLIN

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Table of Contents

Foreword by Nicolas Mirzoeff General Introduction Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins Part I: Object Marcel Mauss. 'Gifts and the Obligation to Return Gifts' Georg Lukács. 'The Phenomenon of Reification' Jean Baudrillard. 'Subjective Discourse or The Non-Functional System of Objects' D.W. Winnicott. 'Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena' Page Dubois. 'Dildos' Tim Ingold. 'On Weaving a basket’ Part II: Thing Martin Heidegger. 'The Thing' Bill Brown. 'Thing Theory' Bruno Latour. 'From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik or How to Make Things Public' Julian Bleecker. 'Why Things Matter: A Manifesto for Networked Objects – Cohabiting with Pigeons, Arphids, Aibos in the Internet of Things' Part III: Objects and Agency Peter Brown. 'Praesentia' Michael Taussig. 'In Some Way or Another One Can Protect Oneself From the Spirits by Portraying Them' Alfred Gell. 'The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology' Bruno Latour. ‘Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts' Part IV: Object Experience Walter Benjamin. 'Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting' Wiebe E. Bijker. 'King of the Road: The Social Construction of the Safety Bicycle' Vivian Sobchak. ‘A Leg to Stand On: Prosthetics, Metaphor, and Materiality’ Victor Margolin. 'The Experience of Products' Part V: The Objecthood of Images Michael Fried. 'Art and Objecthood' Siegfried Kracauer. 'Calico-World: The UFA City in Neubabelsberg' Elizabeth Edwards. 'Photographs as Objects of Memory' Maurice M. Manring. 'Aunt Jemima Explained: The Old South, the Absent Mistress and the Slave in a Box' Part VI. Leftovers Barbara Penner. 'A World of Unmentionable Suffering: Women’s Public Conveniences in Victorian London' Celeste Olalquiaga. 'Holy Kitschen: Collecting Religious Junk from the Street' Julian Stallabrass. 'Trash' Christina Lindsay. 'From the Shadows: Users as Designers, Producers, Marketers, Distributors, and Technical Support' Part VII. Object Lessons Roland Barthes. 'Toys' Dick Hebdige. 'Shipping Containers' Penny Sparke. 'The LC4 Chaise Longue by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, 1928' Adrian Rifkin. 'No Thing to Regret…' Guy Julier. "Inside and Outside the iPod' Peter Lunenfeld. '10ft, 4' Michelle Hennings. 'The Cosmic Symbol' Carolyn de la Pena. 'Saccharin Sparrow (circa 1955)' Susan Pearce. 'Paint Flake' Laurie Beth Clark. 'Tricycle' Alexander R. Galloway. 'Pixel' Erica Rand. 'What Lube Goes Into' Laura Marks. 'My Rock' Ruud Kalingfreks 'The Broken Mug' Ester Leslie. 'Snow Shaker' Georgina Kleege 'My White Cane' Curtis Marez. 'The Homies, or The Last Angel of History in Silicon Valley' Griselda Pollock 'Object to be determined'