Jean Piaget, The Child’s Conception of the World (New York: Routledge, 1997), 169–252.
Paul Valéry, “The Conquest of Ubiquity,” in Aesthetics, trans. Ralph Manheim (New York: Pantheon Books, 1964), 228.
Frank Thadeusz, “Drang zum Ding,” Der Spiegel 19 (2007), 160.
Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things(Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010), 6.
Hito Steyerl, “A Thing Like You and Me,” e-flux journal 15 (2010), →.
Navid Kermani, Dein Name: Roman (Munich: Hanser, 2011).
Bruno Latour, Graham Harman, and Peter Erdélyi, The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE (Winchester, U.K.: Zero Books, 2011).
Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency, trans. Ray Brassier (London: Continuum, 2008).
Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, trans. John Cumming (New York: Continuum, 1991).
Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age, trans. David Homel, Enrico Caouette, Jacob Homel, Don Winkler (Montreal: McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2010).
One cannot but think in this context of the post-privacy movement, which not only misapprehends—reads literally—the longing to become a thing, a pure intersection of relations, but moreover politicizes it, declaring privacy to be obsolete.
Theodor W. Adorno, Negative Dialectics, trans. E. B. Ashton (New York: Continuum, 1997), 188.
Ibid., 183.
Dirk Quadflieg, “Zur Dialektik von Verdinglichung und Freiheit,” Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 59 (2011), 1–15.
Translated from the German by Gerrit Jackson. The author would like to thank Mercedes Bunz and Pascal Jurt for the various links they have indicated.