thing theory (2007)

instructor: sev fowles

columbia university

anth g6085

we are the be-thinged... (martin heidegger)

the context for much of the current interest in material culture is a fear. It is a fear of objects supplanting people.

(daniel miller)
syllabus
objects
is it really true that the world is becoming emptied of things?

(john frow)

subjects
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