[ecrea] Transformations Issue 27 — Thing Theory, Material Culture, and Object-Oriented Ontology

      Transformations announces the release of Issue No. 27  — Thing
      Theory, Material Culture, and Object-Oriented Ontology

Access the issue at:
http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/editorial.shtml

The investigation of/things/is an important subject across many
disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. In/The Social Life of
Things/(1988), Arjun Appadurai provided an innovative exploration of how
things, as commodities, shaped their human agents, rather than the other
way around — an idea that would have important repercussions for a new
scholarly interest in material culture. In attempting to illuminate the
problematic notion of a “Thing Theory” (2001), Bill Brown has pointed to
the complex relationship between objects and things, arguing that things
lie outside a simple subject-object framework, leading a multifaceted
“life” that humans only glimpse rather than truly see. More recently,
in/Vibrant Matter/(2010), Jane Bennett has investigated the political
ecology of things and scholars such as Gay Hawkins (2009) and Gillian
Whitlock (2010) have taken up this rich field of enquiry in their
explorations of topics as diverse as cultural detritus, the posthuman,
the consumption of water and plastic, and the production, dissemination
and reception of testimony and artifacts concerned with asylum seekers’
life narratives.

This collection of articles spans art history, literature, theatre, and
media studies, demonstrating the versatility of thing theory and its
diverse applications to the study of material culture and the ontology
of objects.

Editors: Jane Stadler and Wilson Koh.

Articles:


Possibilization and Desuetude: the Politics of the Reversed Canvas as
Thing-Object <http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/01.shtml>
- Richard Read

Thinking Things: Images of Thought and Thoughtful Images
<http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/02.shtml> - Chari Larsson

Territory of the Visual: Photographic Materialities and the Persistence
of Indo-Muslim Architecture
<http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/03.shtml> - Sushma Griffin


Hubble-Bubble of Transcultural Encounters: A Study of the Social Life of
the Hookah <http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/04.shtml> -
Prateek


Movement in the Motif: Semblances and Affective Criticism
<http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/05.shtml> - Nick Lord


The Forms and Uses of Contemporary Books: Studying the Book as a Mass
Produced Commodity and an Intimate Object
<http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/06.shtml> - Hanna Kuusela


An Ontography of Broadband on a Domestic Scale
<http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/07.shtml> - Michael
Arnold, Bjorn Nansen and Jenny Kennedy, Martin Gibbs, Mitchell Harrop,
and Rowan Wilken


Schoolgirls at Truck Stops: Tracing Place, Things, Bodies and Fictions
<http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/08.shtml> - Susanne Gannon

Political Poetics and the Power of Things: Nonhuman Agency and Climate
Change in Alexis Wright’s/The Swan Book/
<http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/09.shtml> - Jean Skeat

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