<The object reader>
2p
Pushing that question even further, some writers consider the borderlines between an object and a thing, asking how matter takes on form, becomes named, recognisable and comprehensible, indeed, how objects are understood as such.
9p
Baudrillard ; subject discourse or the non-functional system of objects
-> is a cultural and social critique of the new system of objects forming consumer society in the Cold War period. His complete study analyses multiple systems of objects: functional objects (consumer goods), non-functional objects (antiques, collections) and what he purports as being metafunctional objects (gadgets, gizmos and robots). He rigorously works through these socio-ideological structures to obtain an understanding of how consumer culture produces needs, behaviour and fantasy
12p
objects inspire – Sherry Turkle
In ‘Objects Inspire’ (2008), Sherry Turkle draws upon psychoanalysis and scientists autobiographies to illustrate how objects provide children and adults with ways of generating new ideas, understanding scientific principles and negotiating their inner and outer worlds.
Object Inspire
Turkle, S, edited by Candlin, F, Guins, R. (2009) Object Inspire,The object reader. London: Routledge.
