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August 12, 2008
Lorraine Daston, ed. Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science New York: Zone Books, 2003. 456 pp.; 8 color ills.; 73 b/w ills. Paper $21.95 (1890951439)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.80

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Things—from soap bubbles to works of art—have a voice of their own. This is the audacious claim of a collection of essays that brings together distinguished scholars in the history of science and art history. The contributors insist that “things,” the objects that surround us, are endowed with agency that goes unnoticed because of our compulsion to fill the world with meaning. In our concern to make sense of our surroundings we fail to notice...