By Bill Brown
The publication levels around the literary, visible, and plastic arts to depict the curious lives of items. starting with Achilles’s defend, then monitoring the object/thing contrast because it seems to be within the paintings of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan, invoice Brown finally makes a speciality of the thingness disclosed by way of particular literary and inventive works. Combining heritage and literature, feedback and idea, Other Things offers a brand new method of realizing the inanimate item global and where of the human inside of it, encouraging us to imagine anew approximately what we suggest by way of materiality itself.
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