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November 14 2012, 4:38am | Comments
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IS ONTOLOGY MAKING US STUPID?

September 20 2012, 7:35am | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments
Bookmark Ian Bogost on understanding what it's like to be a thing
In a New Yorker essay a few weeks back, Laura Miller considered the various ways in which science fiction writers have imagined aliens, from the 18th century through today. Perhaps inevitably,…

August 8 2012, 3:53am | Comments
Bookmark In New York Sanitation Dept. Garage, an Art Gallery - NYTimes.com
This two-story brick building is nothing special, even a bit decrepit, but as you walk up its crooked metal staircase toward the second floor, you will find the first hint that…

August 8 2012, 2:54am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Speculative Realism 101 Speculative Realism: What are the key texts I need to read. I am interested in Speculative Realism (SR) (and Speculative Materialism (SM)) as attempts to overcome 'Philosophies of access' (those which privilege the human being over other entities; anthropocentrism). Also, any texts that…

July 26 2012, 7:40am | Comments
Bookmark "Don't Gaze Me, Bro" : curation, gender, and the new aesthetic
Everyone seems to be talking about the New Aesthetic lately. Have you seen it? It might possibly have shattered records of attention credits/takes in its opening weekend. In its tumblr form,…

May 30 2012, 1:56am | Comments
Bookmark Are there "fakes" in digital art?
The History of Art is filled with forgeries, but are there fakes in digital art fields made from creative cut-and-pastes, collaborative works and infinite works? We approached four people who, pondering…

May 23 2012, 9:37am | Comments
Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…
...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

May 23 2012, 12:36am | Comments
Bookmark People see sexy pictures of women as objects, not people
Sexual objectification has been well studied, but most of the research is about looking at the effects of this objectification. "What's unclear is, we don't actually know whether people at a…

May 17 2012, 3:28am | Comments
Bookmark Inheriting The Hoard
“I knew as a kid I’d have to take care of it. I had prepared myself for it – for this moment,” Greg M., 41, says rather stoically of the overwhelming…

May 4 2012, 4:36am | Comments
Bookmark Children of Hoarders on Leaving the Cluttered Nest
In dealing with her mother’s home in Minneapolis, Ms. Sholl has spent much of her life alternating between feeling shame about its squalid condition and attempting to rid it of the…

May 4 2012, 3:45am | Comments
Bookmark The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder
A really new aesthetics might work differently: instead of concerning itself with the way we humans see our world differently when we begin to see it through and with computer media…

April 18 2012, 9:33am | Comments
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The Democracy of Objects

March 5 2012, 3:44pm | Comments
Bookmark On A History of the World in 100 Objects
Objects 101 by Roger Sandall What interests me here however is something else—the profoundly paradoxical position of MacGregor himself. When resisting Greek calls for the return of the Elgin Marbles, he…

November 14 2011, 6:59am | Comments
Wikipedia Sacred Contagion Sacred contagion is the belief that spiritual properties within an object, place, or person may be passed to another object, place, or person, usually by direct contact or physical proximity. While the concept of sacred contagion has existed in numerous cultures since before…

August 12 2011, 8:08am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Natural Contract
“Suppose two speakers, determined to contradict each other. As violent as their confrontation may be, as long as they are willing to continue the discussion they must speak a common language in order for the dialogue to take place. There can’t be an argument…

August 9 2011, 5:36am | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments
Tumblr The Objectuals

July 22 2011, 1:47am | Comments
Bookmark In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective
Imagine you are falling. But there is no ground. Many contemporary philosophers have pointed out that the present moment is distinguished by a prevailing condition of groundlessness.1 We cannot assume any…

July 19 2011, 2:49am | Comments
Bookmark The Pathology of Collecting
What I’ve learned, the hard way, is that the one thing you must never ask a collector is “why?” It’ll get you nowhere. They’ll just stare at you in baffled amazement…

July 11 2011, 4:54am | Comments
Bookmark A Thing Like You and Me
by Hito Steyerl What happens to identification at this point? Who can we identify with? Of course, identification is always with an image. But ask anybody whether they’d actually like to…

May 11 2011, 3:03am | Comments
Bookmark Technology Wants to Keep Evolving
Kelly argues that all technologies, from the stone ax to the computer chip, should be seen as a collectivity—the technium, which is “the greater, global, massively interconnected system of technology vibrating…

February 22 2011, 12:03pm | Comments
Bookmark Art and Thingness, Part Two: Thingification
by Sven Lütticken In a text written in response to the upheavals of the Russian Revolution and the early Soviet avant-garde, Carl Einstein claimed that tradition “piles up in the object”;…

July 19 2010, 8:08am | Comments
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