W. J. T. Mitchell: “objects are the way things appear to a
subject – that is, with a name, an identity, a gestalt or stereotypical
template. … Things, on the other hand, … [signal] the moment when the object
becomes the Other, when the sardine can looks back, when the mute idol speaks,
when the subject experiences the object as uncanny and feels the need for what
Foucault calls ‘a metaphysics of the object, or, more exactly, a metaphysics of
that never objectifiable depth from which objects rise up toward our
superficial knowledge.’ “
From: Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter, a political ecology
of things, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2010, p. 2.
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