To browse Academia. This unique collection frames the classic debates on objects and aims to generate new ones by reshaping the ways in which the object can be taught and studied, from a wide variety of disciplines and fields. The Object Reader elucidates objects in many of their diverse roles, dynamics and capacities. Precisely because the dedicated study of objects does not reside neatly within a single discipline, this collection is comprised of numerous academic fields.
The selected writings are drawn from from anthropology, art history, classical studies, critical theory, cultural studies, digital media, design history, disability studies, feminism, film and television studies, history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, social studies of science and technology, religious studies and visual culture.
Object relations contains a collection of images and essays in which the contributors trace the power of objects that connects them to ideas, to people and to their pasts. The essays reveal an array of objects that for the authors have either emotional associations or provoked their thinking in a significant way. The book draws together ideas about objects through both text and image, a pairing that has evolved from a personal desire for collecting, arranging and photographing objects and using these images in conjunction with narrative.
A Companion to Contemporary Design Since , Objectsโsacred and profaneโdefine the physical world and the ways in which humans navigate through it. They give matter and shape to the everyday, and can signify power, prestige, and agency. Artists, designers, writers, historians, and philosophers all seek to apprehend objects, to imbue them with power and to decode this power.
The complexity of the materialized realm of objects is reflected in the language and taxonomies used to define and organize them. Objects, things, stuff: all signify items of significance to the human world, but each denotes a distinct relationship, approach, and definition of these humanโmaterial encounters.
