Otjen, Nathaniel (Author)
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Volume: 28
Issue: 3
Pages: 285-307
This essay argues that material things hail individuals on an everyday basis, pulling people into a more lateral set of relations with materiality. To make this argument, I read several twentieth-century critics and philosophers who have theorized the address, including Althusser, Levinas, and Butler, alongside two Anthropocene narratives that center material stratification and the viscous hauntings of things. As the encounters in Ann Pancake's novel Strange as This Weather Has Been (2007) and Chris Chester's memoir Providence of a Sparrow (2002) reveal, the momentary relationship with things precipitated by the hail refigures the human participant as one agent among many.
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