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<h3 style="text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Transformations announces the release of Issue No. 27 — Thing Theory, Material Culture, and Object-Oriented Ontology</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Access the issue at:
<a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/editorial.shtml">http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/editorial.shtml</a><br>
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<span style="background:white">The investigation of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>things</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is an important subject across many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. In<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The
Social Life of Things<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></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<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Vibrant Matter</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;background:white">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.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;background:white">Editors: Jane Stadler and Wilson Koh.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/01.shtml"><span style="color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none">Possibilization and Desuetude: the Politics of the Reversed Canvas as Thing-Object</span></a> - Richard Read</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/02.shtml"><span style="color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none">Thinking Things: Images of Thought and Thoughtful Images</span></a>
- Chari Larsson</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/03.shtml"><span style="color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none">Territory of the Visual: Photographic
Materialities and the Persistence of Indo-Muslim Architecture</span></a> - Sushma Griffin</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/04.shtml"><span style="color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none">Hubble-Bubble of Transcultural Encounters: A Study of the Social Life of the Hookah</span></a> - Prateek</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/05.shtml"><span style="color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none">Movement in the Motif: Semblances and Affective Criticism</span></a> - Nick Lord</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/06.shtml"><span style="color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none">The Forms and Uses of Contemporary Books: Studying the Book as a Mass Produced Commodity and an Intimate Object</span></a> - Hanna
Kuusela</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/07.shtml"><span style="color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none">An Ontography of Broadband on a Domestic Scale</span></a> - Michael Arnold, Bjorn Nansen and Jenny Kennedy, Martin Gibbs, Mitchell
Harrop, and Rowan Wilken</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/08.shtml"><span style="color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none">Schoolgirls at Truck Stops: Tracing Place, Things, Bodies and Fictions</span></a> - Susanne Gannon</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://www.transformationsjournal.org/issues/27/09.shtml"><span style="color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none">Political Poetics and the Power of Things:
Nonhuman Agency and Climate Change in Alexis Wright’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Swan Book</i></span></a> - Jean Skeat</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Access the issue at:
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