[3] Things, on the other hand, manifest themselves once they interact with our bodies unexpectedly, break down, malfunction, shed their encoded social values, or elude our understanding.
[3] The theory was largely created by Bill Brown, who edited a special issue of Critical Inquiry on it in 2001[4] and published a monograph on the subject entitled A Sense of Things.
In this sense, Oldenburg's deliberate attempt to turn an object into a thing 'expresses the power of this particular work to dramatize a generational divide and to stage (to melodramatize, even) the question of obsolescence.
[11] Fowles describes a blind spot in Thing Theory, which he attributes to a post-human, post-colonialist attention to physical presence.
It fails to address the influence of "non-things, negative spaces, lost or forsaken objects, voids or gaps – absences, in other words, that also stand before us as entity-like presences with which we must contend.