OTHER THINGS

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone-the humanities continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of t hings. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? In Other Things, Bill Brown ex plores this question by considering an assortment of objects-from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers-that have fasc inated a range of writers and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Man Ray, Spike Lee, and Don DeLillo. Brown ranges across the litera ry, visu...[Read more]