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.
