In her book Vibrant Matter: A political ecology of things (2009) Jane Bennett investigates “thingness” – the way in which objects can make us notice them.  She suggests that thingness is an idea which “stretches concepts of  agency, action, and freedom” and “dissipates  binaries of life/matter, human/animal, will/determination and organic/inorganic” (p. x). Bennett has looked particularly at trash and hoarders to help her make sense of ‘the call’ of things.

How do resources about art and artists call to those who use them?