{"product_id":"other-things-bill-brown-9780226283029","title":"Other Things","description":"From the pencil to the puppet to the drone--the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? \u003ci\u003eOther Things\u003c\/i\u003e explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects--from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers--that have fascinated a range of writers and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Man Ray, Spike Lee, and Don DeLillo. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book ranges across the literary, visual, and plastic arts to depict the curious lives of things. Beginning with Achilles's Shield, then tracking the object\/thing distinction as it appears in the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan, Bill Brown ultimately focuses on the thingness disclosed by specific literary and artistic works. Combining history and literature, criticism and theory, \u003ci\u003eOther Things\u003c\/i\u003e provides a new way of understanding the inanimate object world and the place of the human within it, encouraging us to think anew about what we mean by materiality itself. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bill Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022628302X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226283029\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.06w x 1.10d","brand":"Bill Brown","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45477233230079,"sku":"9780226283029","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3d41464d-ec54-4aea-9e2c-336df15d89e6.jpg?v=1715919417","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/other-things-bill-brown-9780226283029","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}