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Book Synopsis''An old teapot, used daily, can tell me more of my past than anything I recorded of it.''
Sylvia Townsend WarnerThere are many ways of telling the story of a life and how we''ve got to where we are. The questions of why and how we think the way we do continues to preoccupy philosophers. In
The Stuff of Life, Timothy Morton chooses the objects that have shaped and punctuated their life to tell the story of who they are and why they might think the way they do. These objects are ''things'' in the richest sense. They are beings, non-human beings, that have a presence and a force of their own. From the looming expanse of Battersea Power Station to a packet of anti-depressants and a cowboy suit, Morton explores why ''stuff'' matters and the life of these things have so powerfully impinged upon their own. Their realization, through a concealer stick, that they identify as non-binary reveals the strange and wonderful ways that objects can form our worlds.Part memoir, part philo
Table of ContentsChapter 0: Introducing Chapter 1: Electric Peanuts Chapter 2: Inner Bodyworker Chapter 3: Wimbledon Park Station Chapter 4: Oso Chapter 5: Arc Lights Chapter 6: CPAP Chapter 7: Antidepressants Chapter 8: Cowboy Costume Chapter 9: Concealer Chapter 10: Battersea Power Station Chapter 11: Clangers Chapter 12: Drum Kit Chapter 13: Avebury Ring Chapter 14: The Chicken Acknowledgments
