I. Object --Gifts and the obligation to return gifts / Marcel Mauss --
The phenomenon of reification / Georg Lukács --
Toys / Roland Barthes --
Subjective discourse or the non-functional system of objects / Jean Baudrillard --
Transitional objects and transitional phenomena / D.W. Winnicott --
On weaving a basket / Tim Ingold --
Dildos / Page DuBois --
II. Thing --
The thing / Martin Heidegger --
The thing / Elizabeth Grosz --
Thing theory / Bill Brown --
From realpolitik to dingpolitik or how to make things public / Bruno Latour --
Why things matter : a manifesto for networked objects : cohabiting with pigeons, arphids, and aibos in the internet of things / Julian Bleecker --
III. Objects and Agency --
Praesentia / Peter Brown --
In some way or another one can protect oneself from the spirits by portraying them / Michael Taussig --
The technology of enchantment and the enchantment of technology / Alfred Gell --
Where are the missing masses? : the sociology of a few mundane artifacts / Bruno Latour --
IV. Object experience --
Unpacking my library : a talk about book collecting / Walter Benjamin --
King of the road : the social construction of the safety bicycle / Wiebe E. Bijker --
A leg to stand on : prosthetics, metaphor, and materiality / Vivian Sobchack --
Objects inspire / Sherry Turkle --
V. Objecthood of Images--
Art and objecthood / Michael Fried --
Calico-world : the UFA city in Neubabelsberg / Siegfried Kracauer --
Photographs as objects of memory / Elizabeth Edwards --
Aunt Jemima explained : the Old South, the absent mistress and the slave in a box / Maurice M. Manring --
VI. Leftovers --
A world of unmentionable suffering : women's public conveniences in Victorian London / Barbara Penner --
Holy kitschen : collecting religious junk from the street / Celeste Olalquiaga --
Trash / Julian Stallabrass --
From the shadows : users as designers, producers, marketers, distributors, and technical support / Christina Lindsay --
VI. Leftovers --
Aibo / Anne Friedberg --
Bouncing in the streets : a performance remix / Anna Beatrice Scott --
Broken mug / Ruud Kalingfreks --
The cosmic symbol / Michelle Henning --
The Eames chair (Dax) / Tara McPherson --
A flake of paint / Susan Pearce --
Game counter / Henry Lowood --
The Grays Inn Lane handaxe / Jill Cook --
The Homies, or the last angel of history in Silicon Valley / Curtis Marez --
Inside and outside the iPod / Guy Julier --
The LC4 chaise longue by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, 1928 / Penny Sparke --
Maternal object : matrixial subject / Griselda Pollock --
Mermaid's tears / Raiford Guins --
The museum of corntemporary art / Victor Margolin --
No thing to regret- / Adrian Rifkin --
Pixel / Alexander R. Galloway --
My rock / Laura U. Marks --
Saccharin sparrow (circa 1955) / Carolyn Thomas de la Peña --
My secret weapon / Georgina Kleege --
Shin's tricycle / Laurie Beth Clarke --
Snow shaker / Esther Leslie --
Ten foot, four / Peter Lunenfeld --
Thumbnails / Heidi Rae Cooley --
What lube goes into / Erica Rand --
Yesterday upon the stair / Fiona Candlin --
VIII. Object bibliography.

This collection frames the classic debates on objects and aims to generate new ones by reshaping the ways in which the object can be taught and studied, from a wide variety of disciplines and fields.