Alphabetical Reading List [November 2014]
Barthes, Roland. ‘Toys’. In Mythologies, trans. Annette Lavers. London: Vintage, 2000,
pp.53-55.
Barthes, Roland. ‘La métaphore de l’oeil’. In Roland Barthes: Oeuvres Complètes Tome 1:
1942-1965, ed. Marty, E. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1993, pp. 1346-1351.
Baudelaire, Charles. ‘A Philosophy of Toys’. In The Painter of Modern Life and other
Essays, trans. Mayne, J. London: Phaidon Press, 1964.
Baudrillard, Jean. ‘Subjective Discourse or The Non-Functional System of Objects’. In
The System of Objects. trans. Benedict, J. London: Verso, 1996, pp. 73 -106.
Benjamin, Walter. ‘The Cultural History of Toys’. In Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings,
Vol.2, Part 2, 1927-1930, eds. Jennings, M. W. et al. trans. Livingston, R. et al. Cambridge
& London, 2005, pp.113-6.
Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Duke University Press,
2010), Chapter 2 “The Agency of Assemblages,” pp. 20-38.
Breton, André. ‘Equation de l’Objet Trouvé’. Documents 34, Nouvelle série, No.1
[Numéro Spécial: ‘Interventions Surréalistes’] (Juin 1934), pp.17-22.
Breton, André. ‘La Crise de l’Objet’, Cahiers d’Art, Volume XI, Nos.1-2 (1936), pp.21-6.
Brown, Bill. ‘Thing Theory’, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 28, No. 1, Things. (Autumn, 2001), pp. 122.
Connor, Steven. ‘Thinking Things’. A plenary lecture given at ESSE-9, the 9th annual
conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Aarhus, Denmark,
25 August 2008.
Gell, Alfred. ‘The technology of enchantment and the enchantment of technology’ in
Anthropology, art and aesthetics, S. 40-63
Gibson, James J. ‘The Theory of Affordances’. In Perceiving, Acting and Knowing: Toward
an Ecological Psychology, eds. Shaw, R. and Brausford, J. New York, Toronto, London,
Sydney: John Wiley & Sons, 1977.
Grosz, Elizabeth. ‘The Thing’. In Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and
Real Space, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001, pp.167 - 84
Harman, Graham. ‘The Road to Objects’. Continent 3 .1 (2011), pp.171-179.
Harman, Graham. ‘Technology, objects and things in Heidegger’, Cambridge Journal of
Economics, 34 (2010), pp.17-25
Heidegger, Martin. ‘The Thing’, in Poetry, Language, Thought (1971), Harper & Row,
pp.165-169
Ingold, Tim. ‘Making Culture and Weaving the World’. In Matter, Materiality and
Modern Culture, ed. Graves-Brown, P. M. London and New York: Routledge, 2000.
Lacan, Jacques. ‘The Freudian Thing, or the meaning of the return to Freud in
psychoanalysis’ in Ecrits: a selection. London: Routledge Classics, 2001; pp.126-60
Latour, Bruno. ‘The Berlin Key or How to do Words with Things’. In Matter, Materiality
and Modern Culture, ed. Graves-Brown, P. M. London and New York: Routledge, 2000,
pp. 10-21.
Lehmann, Ann-Sophie. ‘Wedging, Throwing, Dipping and Dragging – How Motions,
Tools and Materials Make Art,’ in Folded Stones, eds. Barbara Baert and Trees de Mits
(Institute for Practice-based Research in the Arts: Ghent 2009), 41-60.
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. ‘The Thing and the Natural World’ in Phenomenology of
Perception, trans. Smith, C. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978, pp. 299-334.
Miller, Peter N. ‘How Objects Speak’, The Chronicle Review (11 August 2014), The
Chronicle of Higher Education online: http://chronicle.com/article/How-ObjectsSpeak/148177/
Pinney, Christopher. ‘Things Happen: Or, From Which Moment Does That Object
Come?’. In Materiality, ed. Miller, D. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005,
pp.256-72
Turkle, Sherry. ‘Introduction: The Things That Matter’. In Evocative Objects: things we
think with, ed. Turkle, S. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007, pp.3-10.
Winnicott, D. W. ‘Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena’. In Playing and
Reality (1971), London: Routledge, pp.1-25