On the Cover:A drop of glycerol (a liquid with a viscosity one thousand times greater than that of water) breaking apart inside another fluid, PDMS, of the same viscosity as the glycerol. Photo: Sidney R. Nagel and Itai Cohen.

Autumn 2001
(Volume 28, Number 1)

Special Issue: THINGS
Edited by Bill Brown

Table of Contents

  1. Bill Brown: Thing Theory

  2. Sidney R. Nagel: Shadows and Ephemera

  3. Matthew L. Jones: Descartes's Geometry as Spiritual Exercise

  4. Daniel Tiffany: Lyric Substance: On Riddles, Materialism, and Poetic Obscurity

  5. Peter Schwenger: Words and the Murder of the Thing

  6. Peter Stallybrass and Ann Rosalind Jones: Fetishizing the Glove in Renaissance Europe

  7. Jonathan Lamb: Modern Metamorphoses and Disgraceful Tales

  8. W. J. T. Mitchell: Romanticism and the Life of Things: Fossils, Totems, and Images

  9. Christina Kiaer: The Russian Constructivist Flapper Dress

  10. Jeffrey T. Schnapp: The Romance of Caffeine and Aluminum

  11. John Frow: A Pebble, a Camera, a Man Who Turns into a Telegraph Pole

  12. Rey Chow: Fateful Attachments: On Collecting, Fidelity, and Lao She

  13. Michael Taussig: "Dying Is an Art, Like Everything Else"

  14. Lesley Stern: "Paths That Wind through the Thicket of Things"

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