The object

"This anthology surveys some of the many twists and turns in the object-subject relationship, from 'thingness', everyday and useful objects to lost, performative and non-objects. This wide-ranging selection of 20th and 21st century texts brings the object to the fore as a prism through which to re-read contemporary art." [από το οπισθόφυλλο]._Artists increasingly refer to "post-object-based" work while theorists engage with material artifacts in culture. A focus on "object-based" learning treats objects as vectors for dialogue across disciplines. Virtual imaging enables the object to be abstracted or circumvented, while immaterial forms of labor challenge materialist theories. This anthology surveys such reappraisals of what constitutes the "objectness" of production, with art as its focus. Among the topics it examines are the relation of the object to subjectivity; distinctions between objects and things; the significance of the object's transition from inert mass to tool or artifact; and the meanings of the everyday in the found object, repetition in the replicated or multiple object, loss in the absent object, and abjection in the formless or degraded object. It also explores artistic positions that are anti-object; theories of the experimental, liminal or mental object; and the role of objects in performance. The object becomes a prism through which to reread contemporary art and better understand its recent past [περίληψη]On subject and object / Theodor Adorno -- Manipulating the self / General Idea -- Talking to myself : the ongoing autobiography of an art object / Adrian Piper -- In conversation with Guy Bellavance / Jean Baudrillard -- Where things enter into collective society / Michel Serres and Bruno Latour -- Vibrant matter / Jane Bennett -- The alienation of objects / Toby Ziegler and Elizabeth Johnson -- What is an object? / Marcus Steinweg -- A thing like you and me / Hito Steyerl -- Das ding / Jacques Lacan -- Piles / Kurt von Meier -- Signéponge/signsponge / Jacques Derrida -- Thing and object / Julia Kristeva -- Thing theory / Bill Brown -- From objects to things / Bruno Latour -- The thing itself / Arjun Appadurai -- Thing and object / Kristie Miller -- Art as object attachments : thoughts on thingness / Dieter Roelstraete -- Six painters and the object / Lawrence Alloway -- The man-made object / Gillo Dorfles -- Object as image : the Italian scooter cycle / Dick Hebdige -- Transformers / Stephen Willats -- The readymade and the double / Mike Kelley -- Simulated readymades by Fischli and Weiss / Boris Groys -- The elementary object / Mel Chin -- Friendly alien : object and interface / Lev Manovich -- The lamp and the ribbon / Joself Strau -- Grundrisse / Karl Marx -- Statement / Marcel Broodthaers -- Things / Georges Perec -- The use of an object and relating through identification / D.W. Winnicott -- Perfect vehicles / Allan McCollum -- Reading things : the alibi of use / Neil Cummings -- Sans frontières : simulation and contamination / Art in Ruins -- From 1 to 1000 euros / Claude Closky -- A production line of destruction : in conversation with Julian Stallabrass / Michael Landy -- Trading art : the museum shop / Piet Vanrobaeys -- Theoretical reconstructions of imaginary objects / Bruno Munari -- Making good / Lynne Cooke -- How to make objects talk / Issa Samb and Antje Majewski -- The extreme petrol can / Yacouba Konaté -- Mapping the universe / Nancy Spector -- Lexicon / Joëlle Tuerlinckx -- Theory of the non-object / Ferreira Gullar -- 1959-61 : from painting to spraying with acid / Gustav Metzger -- Anti-object / Gruppe Geflecht -- De-objectification of the object / Ursula Meyer -- Art object and artwork / Charles Harrison -- Inventory of destructions / Éric Watier -- Concrete poetry and Ian Hamilton Finlay / Dom Sylvester Houédard -- Ten thousand francs reward / Marcel Broodthaers -- Don Judd / Karl Beveridge and Ian Burn -- Powers of horror : an essay on abjection / Julia Kristeva -- Ludwig Wittgenstein / Terry Eagleton -- The art object / Alfred Gell -- Ordinary objects / Amie Thomasson -- Using the Collier classification system / Brian D. Collier -- An essay about Absalon / Katrina Palmer -- Affecting Abstraction 3 (the complex object) / Falke Pisano -- What things mean / Anders Kreuger -- Psychoanalysis and painting / Jean-François Lyotard -- Mme Panckoucke, or the toy fairy / Giorgio Agamben -- One hundred objects of my affection / Man Ray -- A diary of objects for the Chilean resistance / Cecilia Vicuña -- The absence / Pierre Fédida -- Objects of fetishism / Jean Fisher -- There are objects and objects / Slavoj Zizek -- The matrixial gaze / Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger -- Sunday July 27 - 95 / Louise Bourgeois -- A little object / Parveen Adams -- All things being equal / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh -- Counting : Sherrie Levine's pairs and posses / Howard Singerman -- Waste not / Zhao Xiangyuan and Song Dong -- The game of the object / Gérard Wajcman -- Report of a surveyor / John Latham -- Object / Jimmie Durham -- Model for atomic forms / Kenneth Snelson -- Essay on sculpture / Richard Serra -- Systems aesthetics / Jack Burnham -- The birthday ceremony / Sophie Calle -- The sneeze of Louise / Phyllida Barlow -- Sounding the object / David Toop -- Eva Hesse : reliefs / Rosalind Krauss -- Fundamental bases for a definition of the Parangolé / Hélio Oiticica -- Museum of conceptual art / Tom Marioni -- My work has its roots... / Alina Szapocznikow -- Table tableau / Marc Camille Chaimowicz -- The relational object / Lygia Clark -- Fluxtheatre answers / A.M. Fine -- Cleaning the mirror : Marina Abramovic / Chrissie Iles -- One one minute sculpture by Erwin Wurm / Paulo Herkenhoff -- Déjà vu - Gregor Schneider : die familie Schneider / Aura Satz -- Andy Holden : chewy cosmos thingly time / Richard Hore[Περιεχόμενα]