The object reader / edited by Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins.

Contributor(s): Candlin, Fiona [editor.] | Guins, Raiford [editor.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: In sightLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2009©2009 Description: xix, 554 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415452295 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Material culture | Popular cultureLOC classification: GN406 .O25 2009
Contents:
I. Object --Gifts and the obligation to return gifts / Marcel Mauss -- The phenomenon of reification / Georg Lukács -- Toys / Roland Barthes -- Subjective discourse or the non-functional system of objects / Jean Baudrillard -- Transitional objects and transitional phenomena / D.W. Winnicott -- On weaving a basket / Tim Ingold -- Dildos / Page DuBois -- II. Thing -- The thing / Martin Heidegger -- The thing / Elizabeth Grosz -- Thing theory / Bill Brown -- From realpolitik to dingpolitik or how to make things public / Bruno Latour -- Why things matter : a manifesto for networked objects : cohabiting with pigeons, arphids, and aibos in the internet of things / Julian Bleecker -- III. Objects and Agency -- Praesentia / Peter Brown -- In some way or another one can protect oneself from the spirits by portraying them / Michael Taussig -- The technology of enchantment and the enchantment of technology / Alfred Gell -- Where are the missing masses? : the sociology of a few mundane artifacts / Bruno Latour -- IV. Object experience -- Unpacking my library : a talk about book collecting / Walter Benjamin -- King of the road : the social construction of the safety bicycle / Wiebe E. Bijker -- A leg to stand on : prosthetics, metaphor, and materiality / Vivian Sobchack -- Objects inspire / Sherry Turkle -- V. Objecthood of Images-- Art and objecthood / Michael Fried -- Calico-world : the UFA city in Neubabelsberg / Siegfried Kracauer -- Photographs as objects of memory / Elizabeth Edwards -- Aunt Jemima explained : the Old South, the absent mistress and the slave in a box / Maurice M. Manring -- VI. Leftovers -- A world of unmentionable suffering : women's public conveniences in Victorian London / Barbara Penner -- Holy kitschen : collecting religious junk from the street / Celeste Olalquiaga -- Trash / Julian Stallabrass -- From the shadows : users as designers, producers, marketers, distributors, and technical support / Christina Lindsay -- VI. Leftovers -- Aibo / Anne Friedberg -- Bouncing in the streets : a performance remix / Anna Beatrice Scott -- Broken mug / Ruud Kalingfreks -- The cosmic symbol / Michelle Henning -- The Eames chair (Dax) / Tara McPherson -- A flake of paint / Susan Pearce -- Game counter / Henry Lowood -- The Grays Inn Lane handaxe / Jill Cook -- The Homies, or the last angel of history in Silicon Valley / Curtis Marez -- Inside and outside the iPod / Guy Julier -- The LC4 chaise longue by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, 1928 / Penny Sparke -- Maternal object : matrixial subject / Griselda Pollock -- Mermaid's tears / Raiford Guins -- The museum of corntemporary art / Victor Margolin -- No thing to regret- / Adrian Rifkin -- Pixel / Alexander R. Galloway -- My rock / Laura U. Marks -- Saccharin sparrow (circa 1955) / Carolyn Thomas de la Peña -- My secret weapon / Georgina Kleege -- Shin's tricycle / Laurie Beth Clarke -- Snow shaker / Esther Leslie -- Ten foot, four / Peter Lunenfeld -- Thumbnails / Heidi Rae Cooley -- What lube goes into / Erica Rand -- Yesterday upon the stair / Fiona Candlin -- VIII. Object bibliography.
Summary: This unique collection frames the classic debates on objects and aims to generate new ones by reshaping the ways in which the object can be taught and studied, from a wide variety of disciplines and fields. The Object Reader elucidates objects in many of their diverse roles, dynamics and capacities. Precisely because the dedicated study of objects does not reside neatly within a single discipline, this collection is comprised of numerous academic fields. The selected writings are drawn from from anthropology, art history, classical studies, critical theory, cultural studies, digital media, design history, disability studies, feminism, film and television studies, history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, social studies of science and technology, religious studies and visual culture. The collection, composed of twentieth and twenty-first century writing also seeks to make its own contribution through original work, in the form of twenty-five short 'object lessons' commissioned specifically for this project. These new and innovative studies from key writers across a range of disciplines will enable students to look upon their surroundings with trained eyes to search out their own 'object studies'.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [537]-544) and index.

I. Object --Gifts and the obligation to return gifts / Marcel Mauss -- The phenomenon of reification / Georg Lukács -- Toys / Roland Barthes -- Subjective discourse or the non-functional system of objects / Jean Baudrillard -- Transitional objects and transitional phenomena / D.W. Winnicott -- On weaving a basket / Tim Ingold -- Dildos / Page DuBois -- II. Thing -- The thing / Martin Heidegger -- The thing / Elizabeth Grosz -- Thing theory / Bill Brown -- From realpolitik to dingpolitik or how to make things public / Bruno Latour -- Why things matter : a manifesto for networked objects : cohabiting with pigeons, arphids, and aibos in the internet of things / Julian Bleecker -- III. Objects and Agency -- Praesentia / Peter Brown -- In some way or another one can protect oneself from the spirits by portraying them / Michael Taussig -- The technology of enchantment and the enchantment of technology / Alfred Gell -- Where are the missing masses? : the sociology of a few mundane artifacts / Bruno Latour -- IV. Object experience -- Unpacking my library : a talk about book collecting / Walter Benjamin -- King of the road : the social construction of the safety bicycle / Wiebe E. Bijker -- A leg to stand on : prosthetics, metaphor, and materiality / Vivian Sobchack -- Objects inspire / Sherry Turkle -- V. Objecthood of Images-- Art and objecthood / Michael Fried -- Calico-world : the UFA city in Neubabelsberg / Siegfried Kracauer -- Photographs as objects of memory / Elizabeth Edwards -- Aunt Jemima explained : the Old South, the absent mistress and the slave in a box / Maurice M. Manring -- VI. Leftovers -- A world of unmentionable suffering : women's public conveniences in Victorian London / Barbara Penner -- Holy kitschen : collecting religious junk from the street / Celeste Olalquiaga -- Trash / Julian Stallabrass -- From the shadows : users as designers, producers, marketers, distributors, and technical support / Christina Lindsay -- VI. Leftovers -- Aibo / Anne Friedberg -- Bouncing in the streets : a performance remix / Anna Beatrice Scott -- Broken mug / Ruud Kalingfreks -- The cosmic symbol / Michelle Henning -- The Eames chair (Dax) / Tara McPherson -- A flake of paint / Susan Pearce -- Game counter / Henry Lowood -- The Grays Inn Lane handaxe / Jill Cook -- The Homies, or the last angel of history in Silicon Valley / Curtis Marez -- Inside and outside the iPod / Guy Julier -- The LC4 chaise longue by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, 1928 / Penny Sparke -- Maternal object : matrixial subject / Griselda Pollock -- Mermaid's tears / Raiford Guins -- The museum of corntemporary art / Victor Margolin -- No thing to regret- / Adrian Rifkin -- Pixel / Alexander R. Galloway -- My rock / Laura U. Marks -- Saccharin sparrow (circa 1955) / Carolyn Thomas de la Peña -- My secret weapon / Georgina Kleege -- Shin's tricycle / Laurie Beth Clarke -- Snow shaker / Esther Leslie -- Ten foot, four / Peter Lunenfeld -- Thumbnails / Heidi Rae Cooley -- What lube goes into / Erica Rand -- Yesterday upon the stair / Fiona Candlin -- VIII. Object bibliography.

This unique collection frames the classic debates on objects and aims to generate new ones by reshaping the ways in which the object can be taught and studied, from a wide variety of disciplines and fields. The Object Reader elucidates objects in many of their diverse roles, dynamics and capacities. Precisely because the dedicated study of objects does not reside neatly within a single discipline, this collection is comprised of numerous academic fields. The selected writings are drawn from from anthropology, art history, classical studies, critical theory, cultural studies, digital media, design history, disability studies, feminism, film and television studies, history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, social studies of science and technology, religious studies and visual culture. The collection, composed of twentieth and twenty-first century writing also seeks to make its own contribution through original work, in the form of twenty-five short 'object lessons' commissioned specifically for this project. These new and innovative studies from key writers across a range of disciplines will enable students to look upon their surroundings with trained eyes to search out their own 'object studies'.