In the decade since Bruno Latour published “From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik: Or how to make things public,” his call for a politics that is “no longer limited to humans,” that is radically inclusive, that shatters subject object binaries and welcomes the horizontalizing moment when “objects become things” has gained renewed traction. This symposium takes Latour’s move from object to thing as its point of departure in order to investigate the consequences as well as the potential of this shift for the discipline of art history and the humanities more broadly. To this end, we ask:
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