Contents
Bill Brown
Sidney R. Nagel 23
Matthew L. Jones 40
Daniel Tiffany 72
Jessica Riskin 99
Peter Sclivenger 135
Bruno Latour 131
Peter Stallybrass and 174
Aun Rosalind Jones
Jonathan Lamb 193
1: TL Mitchell 227
Christina Kiaer 245
Jetfrex T. Schnapp 304
Charity Scribner 330
John Frow 346
Rey Chow 369
Vichael Taussig 381
[.eslex Stern 393%
tan Trachtenberg 431
I'hing Theory
Shadows and Ephemera
Descartes’s Geometry as Spiritual
Exercise
Lyric Substance: On Riddles,
Materialism, and Poetic Obscuriny
I'he Defecating Duck, or, the
Ambiguous Origins of Artificial Life
Words and the Murder of the Thing
Whv Has Critique Run out of Steam
From Matters of Fact to Matters of
Concern
Fetishizing the Glove in Renaissance
Europe
Modern Metamorphoses and
Disgracetul Tales
Romanticism and the Life of Things:
Fossils. lotems, and Images
The Russian Constructivist Flapper
Dress
I'he Romance of Caffeine and
Aluminum
Object, Relic, Fetish, Thing: Joseph
Beuvs and the Museum
A Pebble, a Camera, a Man Who Turns
into a Telegraph Pole
Fateful Attachments: On Collecting,
Fidelity, and Lao She
“Dving Is an Art, Like Evervthing
Flse”
“Paths That Wind through the Thicke:
of Things”
Ihings on Film: Shadows and Voice in
Wright Morris's Field of Vision