Contents 
Epigraph 
List of Figures 
Acknowledements 
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Thinking About Things Differently 
Approaches to Things 
Themes About Things 
Things are Not Isolated 
Things are Not Inert 
Things Endure over Different Temporalities 
Things Often Appear as Non-things 
The Forgetness of Things 
What Is a Thing? 
Humans and Things 
Knowing Things 
Conclusion: The Objectness of Things 
Humans Depend on Things 
Dependence: Some Introductory Concepts 
Forms of Dependence 
Reflective and Non-reflective Relationships with Things 
Going Towards and Away From Things 
Identification and Ownership 
Approaches to the Human Dependence On Things 
Being There with Things 
Material Culture and Materiality 
Cognition and the Extended Mind 
Conclusion: Things R Us 
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