A pebble, a camera, a man who turns into a telegraph pole

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 270-284

  John Frow, ^a  

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DOI: 10.1086/449040     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Martin Heidegger, 'The Origin of the Work of Art', Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter (New York, 1971), p. 21; hereafter abbreviated Ό'
2. Zbigniew Herbert, 'Pebble', Selected Poems, trans. Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott (Harmondsworth, 1968), p. 108. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd
3. Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology, trans. Hazel E. Barnes (London, 1957), p. lxv
4. See Patrick White, The Tree of Man (Harmondsworth, 1961), p. 476
5. Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis, trans. Alan Sheridan, ed. Jacques-Alain Miller (London, 1977), p. 84
6. Richard Powers, Gain (New York, 1998), pp. 347-48
7. The following paragraph draws on an argument made in my Time and Commodity Culture (Oxford, 1997), pp. 141-42
8. See William Pietz, 'Fetishism and Materialism: The Limits of Theory in Marx', in Fetishism as Cultural Discourse, ed. Emily Apter and Pietz (Ithaca, N.Y., 1993), pp. 130-31
9. Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, trans. Ben Fowkes, 3 vols. (London, 1976), 1:164-65
10. Leah Hager Cohen, Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things (New York, 1997), p. 224; hereafter abbreviated G
11. Bill Brown, Ήow to Do Things with Things (A Toy Story)', Critical Inquiry 24 (Summer 1998): 936-37
12. Murray Bail, Eucalyptus (Melbourne, 1998), p. 193
13. Ovid, Metamorphoses, trans. Horace Gregory (New York, 1958), 1.546-52, p. 46
14. Rainer Maria Rilke, 'Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes.' Neue Gedichte, in Werke, 3 vols. (Frankfurt am Main, 1966), 1: 300, 301. Eurydice's becoming-root directly recalls the transformation of Daphne's feet into the roots of a tree: 'pes modo tam velox pigris radicibus haeret' (Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.551, p. 46)
15. Hans-Georg Gadamer, 'The Nature of Things and the Language of Things', Philosophical Henneneutics, trans. and ed. David E. Linge (Berkeley, 1976), p. 71; hereafter abbreviated 'N'
16. Alexander Gelley, Unruly Examples: On the Rhetoric of Exemplarity (Stanford, Calif, 1995), p. 1
17. Bruno Latour, 'On Technical Mediation Philosophy, Sociology, Genealogy', Common Knowledge 3 (Fall 1994): 46
18. Latour, 'Technology Is Society Made Durable', trans. Gabrielle Hecht, in A Sociology of Monsters: Essays on Power, Technology, and Domination, ed. John Law (London, 1991), p. 117
19. Latour, Arawis, or The Love of Technology, trans. Catherine Porter (Cambridge, Mass., 1996), p. 61; hereafter abbreviated A
20. Law, 'Introduction: Monsters, Machines and Sociotechnical Relations', in A Sociology of Monsters, p. 10
21. See in particular Michel Callon, 'Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation: Domestication of the Scallops and the Fishermen of St Brieuc Bay', in Power, Action, and Belief: A New Sociology of Knowledge? ed. Law (London, 1986), pp. 196-233
22. Karin Knorr Cetina, 'Sociality with Objects: Social Relations in Postsocial Knowledge Societies', Theory, Culture, and Society 14 (Nov. 1997): 2
23. Callon, 'Techno-economic Networks and Irreversibility', in A Sociology of Monsters, p. 137
24. Callon, 'Techno-economic Networks and Irreversibility', p. 137
25. Alec McHoul, 'Ordinary Heterodoxies: Towards a Theory of Cultural Objects', UTS Review 3 (Nov. 1997): 8; hereafter abbreviated ΌH'
26. Latour sketches out a genealogy of the modernist principle of 'purification' which radically distinguishes people from things. See Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Porter (Cambridge, Mass., 1993)
27. The beginnings of such a detailed history are being worked out in a number of studies of technological development, of which the most striking is still Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (Princeton, N.J., 1985)
28. See Frow, 'Invidious Distinction: Waste, Difference, and Classy Stuff', UTS Review (forthcoming)
29. See Igor Kopytoff, 'The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process', in The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, ed. Arjun Appadurai (Cambridge, 1986), pp. 64-91
30. Appadurai, 'Introduction: Commodities and the Politics of Value', in The Social Life of Things, pp. 3-63
31. Nancy D. Munn, 'Gawan Kula: Spatiotemporal Control and the Symbolism of Influence', in The Kula: New Perspectives on Massim Exchange, ed. Jerry W. Leach and Edmund Leach (Cambridge, 1983), pp. 277-308
32. Annette B. Weiner, "Ά World of Made Is Not a World of Born"': Doing Kula on Kiriwina', in The Kula, pp. 147-70
33. Nicholas Thomas, Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific (Cambridge, Mass., 1991)
34. and Michael Thompson, Rubbish Theory: The Creation and Destruction of Value (Oxford, 1979)
35. Thomas, Entangled Objects, p. 28
36. See Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, Sorting Tilings Out: Classification and Its Consequences (Cambridge, Mass., 1999)