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The investigation of <I>things</I> is an important subject across many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. In <I>The Social Life of Things </I>(1988), Arjun Appadurai provided an innovative exploration of how things, as commodities, shaped their human agents, rather than the other way around — an idea that would have important repercussions for a new scholarly interest in material culture. In attempting to illuminate the problematic notion of a “Thing Theory” (2001), Bill Brown has pointed to the complex relationship between objects and things, arguing that things lie outside a simple subject-object framework, leading a multifaceted “life” that humans only glimpse rather than truly see. More recently, in <I>Vibrant Matter</I> (2010), Jane Bennett has investigated the political ecology of things and scholars such as Gay Hawkins (2009) and Gillian Whitlock (2010) have taken up this rich field of enquiry in their explorations of topics as diverse as cultural detritus, the posthuman, the consumption of water and plastic, and the production, dissemination and reception of testimony and artifacts concerned with asylum seekers’ life narratives. <BR>
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This collection of articles spans art history, literature, theatre, and media studies, demonstrating the versatility of thing theory and its diverse applications to the study of material culture and the ontology of objects.<BR>
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Editors: Jane Stadler and Wilson Koh.<BR>
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Possibilization and Desuetude: the Politics of the Reversed Canvas as Thing-Object <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/01.shtml">http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/01.shtml</a></U></FONT>> - Richard Read<BR>
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Thinking Things: Images of Thought and Thoughtful Images <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/02.shtml">http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/02.shtml</a></U></FONT>> - Chari Larsson<BR>
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Territory of the Visual: Photographic Materialities and the Persistence of Indo-Muslim Architecture <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/03.shtml">http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/03.shtml</a></U></FONT>> - Sushma Griffin<BR>
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Hubble-Bubble of Transcultural Encounters: A Study of the Social Life of the Hookah <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/04.shtml">http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/04.shtml</a></U></FONT>> - Prateek<BR>
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Movement in the Motif: Semblances and Affective Criticism <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/05.shtml">http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/05.shtml</a></U></FONT>> - Nick Lord<BR>
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The Forms and Uses of Contemporary Books: Studying the Book as a Mass Produced Commodity and an Intimate Object <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/06.shtml">http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/06.shtml</a></U></FONT>> - Hanna Kuusela<BR>
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An Ontography of Broadband on a Domestic Scale <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/07.shtml">http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/07.shtml</a></U></FONT>> - Michael Arnold, Bjorn Nansen and Jenny Kennedy, Martin Gibbs, Mitchell Harrop, and Rowan Wilken<BR>
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Schoolgirls at Truck Stops: Tracing Place, Things, Bodies and Fictions <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/08.shtml">http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/08.shtml</a></U></FONT>> - Susanne Gannon<BR>
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Political Poetics and the Power of Things: Nonhuman Agency and Climate Change in Alexis Wright’s <I>The Swan Book</I> <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/09.shtml">http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/09.shtml</a></U></FONT>> - Jean Skeat<BR>
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</U></FONT></SPAN><FONT COLOR="#008000"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Dr. Warwick Mules<BR>
General Editor Transformations <a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/">http://www.transformationsjournal.org/</a><BR>
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Adjunct Associate Professor<BR>
School of Arts and Social Sciences<BR>
Southern Cross University<BR>
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Honorary Senior Research Fellow<BR>
School of Communication and Arts<BR>
University of Queensland<BR>
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