Bill Brown
University of Chicago
32 Papers
195 Citations
Bill Brown is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Materialism & Modernism (music). The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 29 publications. Previous affiliations of Bill Brown include University of Oxford.
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A sense of things : the object matter of American literature
Bill Brown
- 01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: Brown's "A Sense of Things" as mentioned in this paper explores the roots of modern America's fascination with things and the problem that objects posed for American literature at the turn of the century.
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Objects, Others, and Us (The Refabrication of Things)
TL;DR: The Objects and Others collection as mentioned in this paper is a collection of essays written by George Stocking, the historian of anthropology, focusing on what has been called the "Museum Period" in the history of anthropology.
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Introduction: Textual Materialism
TL;DR: The materiality of the signifier, a phrase most forcefully invoked by literary critics when the matter in hand was always meant to matter, has been examined in the context of book history as discussed by the authors.
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Global Bodies/Postnationalities: Charles Johnson's Consumer Culture
TL;DR: Rud Rudolph Jackson as discussed by the authors is a fifty-four-year-old national employee, a post office worker with high blood pressure, emphysema, flat feet, skinny legs, a big belly, and a "pecker" that shrinks "to no bigger than a pencil eraser each time" he sees.
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A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Emily Apter,Ed Atkins,Armen Avanessian,Bill Brown,Giuliana Bruno,Julia Bryan-Wilson,D. Graham Burnett,Mel Y. Chen,Andrew G. Cole,Christoph Cox,Suhail Malik,T. J. Demos,Jeff Dolven,David T. Doris,Helmut Draxler,Patricia Falguières,Peter Galison,Alexander Galloway,Rachel Haidu,Graham Harman,Camille Henrot,Brooke Holmes,Tim Ingold,Caroline A. Jones,Alex Kitnick,Sam Lewitt,Helen Molesworth,Alexander Nemerov,Michael Newman,Spyros Papapetros,Susanne Pfeffer,Gregor Quack,Charles Ray,Matthew Ritchie,André Rottmann,Amie Siegel,Kerstin Stakemeier,Artie Vierkant,McKenzie Wark,Eyal Weizman,Christopher S. Wood,Zhang Ga +41 more
TL;DR: The authors explored what the rewards and risks of assigning agency to objects may be, and how, or if, such new materialisms can be productive for making and thinking about art today.