Things and objects

'In short, I will try to give a voice to thing-power. As W.T.J. Mitchell notes, "objects are the way things appear to a subject - that is, with a name, an identity, a gestalt or stereotypical template...Things, on the other hand, ...[signal] the moment when the object becomes the Other, when the sardine can looks back, when the mute idol speaks, when the subject experiences the object as uncanny and feels the need for what Foucault calls 'a metaphysics of of the object, or, more exactly, a metaphysics of that never identifiable depth from which objects rise up toward our superficial knowledge."

BENNETT, J. (2010). Vibrant matter: a political ecology of things. Durham, Duke University Press.