A living archive of critical

texts, questions, murmurings,

and fleeting thoughts in the MFA in

Craft and MFA in Craft and Material Studies.

Always-On/Always-On-You: The Tethered Self 

Sherry Turkle

AN ARCHIVAL IMPULSE

HAL FOSTER

SYSTEM OF OBJECTS

BAUDRILLARD

VIBRANT MATTER

jane bennett

A CONVERSATION FROM A STUDIO VISIT

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ROT 21 

KONKRETE POESIE INTERNATIONAL

CONFETTI UNCUT 

G. GRAHAM BURNETT

The Democracy of Objects

Levi R. Bryant

The Queer Art of Failure

Judith Halberstam

Presence: A conversation

a world of things

PATTI phillips

hammer projects: diana al-hadid

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SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE

GUY de bord

Phenomenology of Perception

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The Thing Itself

 Arjun Appadurai

Significant Differences

An Interview with

Elizabeth Grosz

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Art and Objecthood 

(1967)

MICHAEL FRIED

BAD FEMINIST

Roxanne Gay

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Secrets of the See-Through Factory

Sven Lütticken

 Investigating Dreamland

 Marcel Broodthaers and Paul Schmidt 

Waking up wild

Annie Dillard

'FORMS IN THE REALMS OF MATTER'

FROM THE LIFE OF FORMS IN ART

Henri Focillon

The Objects of Affection

Arthur Asa Berger

Tactical formlessness

and everyday consumption

James hunt