What is it like to be a thing?

Justyna Wielgus

The label of thing may also apply to items which are “neither physical nor real”. So alongside such obvious objects like a car or a jug, it includes dragons and unicorns, atoms and stars.

Graham Harman

 

During the lesson we will try to answer the following questions: What is the community between a human being and an object, a thing? Why objects remain both in the field of vision and invisibility? What relationships and tensions human beings form with other, “non-human” objects with which they share space?