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