a philosophical analysis of the relations between human beings and material objects.
Now that we have survived the death of God and the death of the subject, we seem to be faced with the death of the thing. Therefore, as an alternative to the prevailing Platonist and immaterialist approaches to artifacts and materiality, I shall be trying to develop a philosophical perspective in which more justice can be done to the role of artifacts in contemporary culture and in the everyday life of human beings.