Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen (Prof. Dr.) is a philosopher, art theorist, curator and currently professor of art theory and curatorial studies at Freie Universität Bozen. He was visiting professor at Columbia University in New York, he became Rektor of Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien (2001-2011). His research focuses on art theory, philosophy, artistic practices and contemporary art.
German A. Duarte (Dr.) is a media theorist, film scholar, film editor and currently assistant professor of film and media studies at Freie Universität Bozen. His research interests include the history of media, film history, cognitive cultural economy and philosophy.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Foreword 7
Speaking of Things - An Introduction 9
The Autonomous Aesthetic of Allure: Mary Bauermeister's Needless Needles and Graham Harman's Object Philosophy 17
Simply things: A phenomenological interpretation from technology to poetry 33
Origins and Ends: Understanding the Medium of Painting According to Heidegger's Truth 47
Object as Symbol: Baudrillard's Thanatopoietic Form 65
Co-Production: Towards a Relational Ontology of Aesthetic Objects 85
Correspondences: Exploring the Echoes of Jack Spicer's Poetics in the Paintings of Matt Connors 101
The Object of Non-Aesthetics 113
Solid Gifts: Seven Lessons from the Fossil 125
Massimo Bartolini's Untitled Untitled (2001): The Strategy for Visualizing the Hyperspace 139
The Lure of Absence: Can there be Process without Artists? 155
A noisy love affair: The Language of Things in the Works of Mark Leckey and Musa paradisiaca 171
The photographic multiples of Joseph Beuys as an extension of himself 185
Obsolescence and reinvention: the case study of João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva 197
A Two-Way Mirror: Narcissism and Surveillance from the Closed Circuit to the Network 213
Shape of Things, Shapes of Time 225
El Anatsui "Triumphant Scale": Material Realism and the Logic of Things 237
Authors 257