Things and Thingness

Vincent Van Gogh  Still Life with Blue Enamel Coffeepot, Earthenware and Fruit   oil on canvas   1888

"What are the poetics and the politics of the object?  How do objects mediate relations between subjects, and how do subjects mediate the relation between objects?  How are things and thingness used to think about the self?"

--Bill Brown  'Sense of Things'