Bill Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bill Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bill |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 388 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Fiftieth Anniversary
Re-Assemblage (Theory, Practice, Mode)
Fiber Optics
October 01 2019 Fiber Optics Brandon Truett, Brandon Truett Brandon Truett and Zoe Hughes and Andrew Bearnot and Bill Brown and Jacob Harris and A.P. Pettinelli and Matthew Beeber and Harrington Weihl are scholars and artists currently assembled in Chicago. Their research areas include visual and material cultures, literary modernism, animal studies, moving image media, and contemporary art. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Goo…
Materialität: Herausforderungen für die Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften
Entgegen der Vorstellung einer im Wesentlichen sprachlich-symbolischen Verfasstheit von Kultur und Gesellschaft vermittelt dieser Band Einblicke in die materielle Beschaffenheit und Bedingtheit menschlichen Handelns und menschlicher Existenz. Hierfür behandeln die Autoren die Rolle und Bedeutung von Artefakten und Materialien, von Zeichen und Texten, von Licht, Tönen und Natur. Das Ergebnis ist eine Rehabilitierung des Materiellen in den Sozial- …
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
The Work of Play: Experiencing Cinema
Through archaeological, conceptual, and rhetorical insights, Miriam Hansen puts play (Spiel) to work in Cinema and Experience. When she engages Walter Benjamin's treatment of film in the “Artwork” essay, she retrieves Spiel from Spielraum, naturalizing a somewhat idiosyncratic (if literal) translation of the latter. “Room-for-play” becomes a phenomenological chronotope that illuminates the leap from Benjamin's account of children's capacity to re…
Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing
Book Review| August 01 2013 Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing Bogost, Ian, Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012), 166 pp. Bill Brown Bill Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 554–556. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2281855 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Sear…
Objects, Others, and Us (The Refabrication of Things)
Counting (Art and Discipline)
Reweaving the Carpet (Reading Stephan Mussil Reading James)
Reweaving the Carpet (Reading Stephan Mussil Reading James) Bill Brown (bio) [L]anguage seemed itself only where sound and image, image and sound, interpenetrated with automatic precision and such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in-the-slot called “meaning.” —Walter Benjamin, “Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia”1 I. A Little Drama If there is an open secret in the work of Henry James (a secret in plain sigh…
Murmuring Matter
The Public Life of Painting
American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting. By Steven Biel. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005. 215 pages. $21.95 (cloth). To explain what he means by the "the biography of things," the anthropologist Igor Kopytoff points to a typical Zulu hut, metamorphosing from its life as a house to its life as a guest house, as a kitchen, and finally as a chicken coop, before collapsing, ravaged by termites. Monumental objects become biographical su…
Object Relations in an Expanded Field
Research Article| December 01 2006 Object Relations in an Expanded Field Bill Brown Bill Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (2006) 17 (3): 88–106. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2006-013 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bill Brown; Object Relations in an Expanded Field. differences 1 December 2006; 17 (3): 88–106. doi: https://doi.org/10.1…
Reification, Reanimation, and the American Uncanny
All Thumbs
A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature
American Studies in a Moment of Danger; Situatedness, or, Why We Keep Saying Where We're Coming From
Book Review| December 01 2003 American Studies in a Moment of Danger; Situatedness, or, Why We Keep Saying Where We're Coming From By George Lipsitz. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2001. xix, 334 pp. Cloth, $45.95; paper, $19.95.By David Simpson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2002. Cloth, $54.95;paper, $18.95. Bill Brown Bill Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 903–906. htt…
Streets into Stages: An interview with Surveillance Camera Players’ Bill Brown
The Surveillance Camera Players, from New York City, are a performance based activist-awareness group who openly, critically, and playfully engage various elements of public surveillance. This discussion with Bill Brown, co-founder of the Surveillance Camera Players, covers the group’s history, the strategy of their public performances and, during the winter months, their weekly walking camera tours. Furthermore, Brown critiques the growth of the…
The Tyranny of Things (Trivia in Karl Marx and Mark Twain)
Thing Theory
How to Do Things with Things (A Toy Story)
Global Bodies/Postnationalities: Charles Johnson's Consumer Culture
FED UP WITH HER HUSBAND'S ABSORPTION in kungfu culture of Seattle, Evelyn Johnson finally explodes: can't be Chinese. She can't imagine Rudolph's longing for a new body, for a new self, as anything but his longing for a new ethnonationality. 'I think it's strange! Rudolph, you didn't grow up in China,' she said. 'They can't breathe in China! ... They all ride bicycles, for Christ's sake! They what we have. Her xenophobia grants transnationality o…
The Popular, the Populist, and the Populace—Locating Hamlin Garland in the Politics of Culture
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory - Volume 50, Number 3, Autumn 1994
A Response to Bill Maurer
Other| May 01 1992 A Response to Bill Maurer Bill Brown Bill Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 149–156. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4-2-149 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Bill Brown; A Response to Bill Maurer. Public Culture 1 May 1992; 4 (2): 149–156. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4-2-149 Download citation file: Zoter…
Writing, Race, and Erasure: Michael Fried and the Scene of Reading
Thing Theory
Reification, Reanimation, and the American Uncanny
How to Do Things with Things (A Toy Story)
Objects, Others, and Us (The Refabrication of Things)
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
Waging Baseball, Playing War: Games of American Imperialism
n 1948, the anthropologist George Murdock published an account of how Japan, in 1914, successfully introduced the game of baseball to Truk and thereby transformed a bellicose island society into a peaceful one. violence of the had been notorious, nothing short of the Conradesque: The most potent 'medicine' was to capture an enemy by stealth, kill him, cut off his lips, and prop up his body with its mouth open on the beach facing the enemy country…
Re-Assemblage (Theory, Practice, Mode)
The Practice of Racial Dispersal in Birmingham, 1969-1975
The possibility of using public sector housing to disperse black people across our cities in the interest of racial integration is again attracting attention. Based on an analysis of housing department records, this article examines the effects on Birmingham's black settlers of the operation of one particular policy of racial dispersal. Having described the events leading to the introduction and ultimately the termination of the policy, the artic…
The Tyranny of Things (Trivia in Karl Marx and Mark Twain)
Global Bodies/Postnationalities: Charles Johnson's Consumer Culture
FED UP WITH HER HUSBAND'S ABSORPTION in kungfu culture of Seattle, Evelyn Johnson finally explodes: can't be Chinese. She can't imagine Rudolph's longing for a new body, for a new self, as anything but his longing for a new ethnonationality. 'I think it's strange! Rudolph, you didn't grow up in China,' she said. 'They can't breathe in China! ... They all ride bicycles, for Christ's sake! They what we have. Her xenophobia grants transnationality o…
The Meaning of Baseball in 1992 (With Notes on The Post-American)
Research Article| January 01 1991 The Meaning of Baseball in 1992 (With Notes on The Post-American) Bill Brown Bill Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1991) 4 (1): 43–69. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4-1-43 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Bill Brown; The Meaning of Baseball in 1992 (With Notes on The Post-American). Public Culture 1 January 1991; 4 (1): 43–…
All Thumbs
Reweaving the Carpet (Reading Stephan Mussil Reading James)
Reweaving the Carpet (Reading Stephan Mussil Reading James) Bill Brown (bio) [L]anguage seemed itself only where sound and image, image and sound, interpenetrated with automatic precision and such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in-the-slot called “meaning.” —Walter Benjamin, “Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia”1 I. A Little Drama If there is an open secret in the work of Henry James (a secret in plain sigh…
Object Relations in an Expanded Field
Research Article| December 01 2006 Object Relations in an Expanded Field Bill Brown Bill Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (2006) 17 (3): 88–106. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2006-013 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bill Brown; Object Relations in an Expanded Field. differences 1 December 2006; 17 (3): 88–106. doi: https://doi.org/10.1…
Streets into Stages: An interview with Surveillance Camera Players’ Bill Brown
The Surveillance Camera Players, from New York City, are a performance based activist-awareness group who openly, critically, and playfully engage various elements of public surveillance. This discussion with Bill Brown, co-founder of the Surveillance Camera Players, covers the group’s history, the strategy of their public performances and, during the winter months, their weekly walking camera tours. Furthermore, Brown critiques the growth of the…
Television's Impact on American Culture
Television's Impact on American Culture Television's Impact on American Culture. Ed. and Introduced by William Y. Elliott. East Lansing, Michigan State University Press; London, Angus & Robertson, 1957. xvi+382 pp. $4.95. 37s. 6d. B. Curtis Brown B. Curtis Brown Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 34, Issue 3, July 1958, Pages 411–412, https://doi.org/10.2307/2605270 Published: 01…
The Practice of Racial Dispersal in Birmingham, 1969-1975
The possibility of using public sector housing to disperse black people across our cities in the interest of racial integration is again attracting attention. Based on an analysis of housing department records, this article examines the effects on Birmingham's black settlers of the operation of one particular policy of racial dispersal. Having described the events leading to the introduction and ultimately the termination of the policy, the artic…
The Process of Building
Waging Baseball, Playing War: Games of American Imperialism
n 1948, the anthropologist George Murdock published an account of how Japan, in 1914, successfully introduced the game of baseball to Truk and thereby transformed a bellicose island society into a peaceful one. violence of the had been notorious, nothing short of the Conradesque: The most potent 'medicine' was to capture an enemy by stealth, kill him, cut off his lips, and prop up his body with its mouth open on the beach facing the enemy country…
The Meaning of Baseball in 1992 (With Notes on The Post-American)
Research Article| January 01 1991 The Meaning of Baseball in 1992 (With Notes on The Post-American) Bill Brown Bill Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1991) 4 (1): 43–69. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4-1-43 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Bill Brown; The Meaning of Baseball in 1992 (With Notes on The Post-American). Public Culture 1 January 1991; 4 (1): 43–…
A Response to Bill Maurer
Other| May 01 1992 A Response to Bill Maurer Bill Brown Bill Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 149–156. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4-2-149 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Bill Brown; A Response to Bill Maurer. Public Culture 1 May 1992; 4 (2): 149–156. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4-2-149 Download citation file: Zoter…
Writing, Race, and Erasure: Michael Fried and the Scene of Reading
The Popular, the Populist, and the Populace—Locating Hamlin Garland in the Politics of Culture
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory - Volume 50, Number 3, Autumn 1994
Global Bodies/Postnationalities: Charles Johnson's Consumer Culture
FED UP WITH HER HUSBAND'S ABSORPTION in kungfu culture of Seattle, Evelyn Johnson finally explodes: can't be Chinese. She can't imagine Rudolph's longing for a new body, for a new self, as anything but his longing for a new ethnonationality. 'I think it's strange! Rudolph, you didn't grow up in China,' she said. 'They can't breathe in China! ... They all ride bicycles, for Christ's sake! They what we have. Her xenophobia grants transnationality o…
How to Do Things with Things (A Toy Story)
Thing Theory
Streets into Stages: An interview with Surveillance Camera Players’ Bill Brown
The Surveillance Camera Players, from New York City, are a performance based activist-awareness group who openly, critically, and playfully engage various elements of public surveillance. This discussion with Bill Brown, co-founder of the Surveillance Camera Players, covers the group’s history, the strategy of their public performances and, during the winter months, their weekly walking camera tours. Furthermore, Brown critiques the growth of the…
The Tyranny of Things (Trivia in Karl Marx and Mark Twain)
A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature
American Studies in a Moment of Danger; Situatedness, or, Why We Keep Saying Where We're Coming From
Book Review| December 01 2003 American Studies in a Moment of Danger; Situatedness, or, Why We Keep Saying Where We're Coming From By George Lipsitz. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2001. xix, 334 pp. Cloth, $45.95; paper, $19.95.By David Simpson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2002. Cloth, $54.95;paper, $18.95. Bill Brown Bill Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 903–906. htt…
All Thumbs
Murmuring Matter
The Public Life of Painting
American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting. By Steven Biel. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005. 215 pages. $21.95 (cloth). To explain what he means by the "the biography of things," the anthropologist Igor Kopytoff points to a typical Zulu hut, metamorphosing from its life as a house to its life as a guest house, as a kitchen, and finally as a chicken coop, before collapsing, ravaged by termites. Monumental objects become biographical su…
Object Relations in an Expanded Field
Research Article| December 01 2006 Object Relations in an Expanded Field Bill Brown Bill Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google differences (2006) 17 (3): 88–106. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-2006-013 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bill Brown; Object Relations in an Expanded Field. differences 1 December 2006; 17 (3): 88–106. doi: https://doi.org/10.1…
Reification, Reanimation, and the American Uncanny
Reweaving the Carpet (Reading Stephan Mussil Reading James)
Reweaving the Carpet (Reading Stephan Mussil Reading James) Bill Brown (bio) [L]anguage seemed itself only where sound and image, image and sound, interpenetrated with automatic precision and such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in-the-slot called “meaning.” —Walter Benjamin, “Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia”1 I. A Little Drama If there is an open secret in the work of Henry James (a secret in plain sigh…
Counting (Art and Discipline)
Objects, Others, and Us (The Refabrication of Things)
Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing
Book Review| August 01 2013 Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing Bogost, Ian, Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012), 166 pp. Bill Brown Bill Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 554–556. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2281855 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Sear…
The Work of Play: Experiencing Cinema
Through archaeological, conceptual, and rhetorical insights, Miriam Hansen puts play (Spiel) to work in Cinema and Experience. When she engages Walter Benjamin's treatment of film in the “Artwork” essay, she retrieves Spiel from Spielraum, naturalizing a somewhat idiosyncratic (if literal) translation of the latter. “Room-for-play” becomes a phenomenological chronotope that illuminates the leap from Benjamin's account of children's capacity to re…
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