Maurizia Boscagli is Associate Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. She is co-director of COMMA, the Center on Modern Literature, Materialism, and Aesthetics. Her first book was Eye on the Flesh: Fashions of Masculinity in the Early Twentieth Century. She is the translator of Antonio Negri's key work Insurgencies. In 2012 she co-edited Joyce, Benjamin, and Magical Urbanism, published in the European Joyce Studies series.

Boscagli’s readings of objects are genuinely exciting ... For anyone interested in consumer capitalism, mediation, the cultural transition from modernity to postmodernity, or objects in art, however, Stuff Theory is a necessary read. Boscagli’s writing throughout has verve, and the analyses are sharp, incisive, and often surprising.

• Introduction: Of Jena Glassware and Potatoes—Matter in the Moment1. Homeopathic Benjamin: A Flexible Poetics of Matter2. For the Unnatural Use of Clothes: Fashion as Cultural Assault3. Paris Circa 1968: Cool Spaces, Decoration, Revolution4. “You Must Remember this:” Memory Objects in the Age of Erasable Memory5. Garbage in Theory: Waste Aesthetics Envoi: What Should We Do With Our Stuff?NotesIndex

Maurizia Boscagli is Associate Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. She is co-director of COMMA, the Center on Modern Literature, Materialism, and Aesthetics. Her first book was Eye on the Flesh: Fashions of Masculinity in the Early Twentieth Century. She is the translator of Antonio Negri's key work Insurgencies. In 2012 she co-edited Joyce, Benjamin, and Magical Urbanism, published in the European Joyce Studies series.

Boscagli’s readings of objects are genuinely exciting ... For anyone interested in consumer capitalism, mediation, the cultural transition from modernity to postmodernity, or objects in art, however, Stuff Theory is a necessary read. Boscagli’s writing throughout has verve, and the analyses are sharp, incisive, and often surprising.

• Introduction: Of Jena Glassware and Potatoes—Matter in the Moment1. Homeopathic Benjamin: A Flexible Poetics of Matter2. For the Unnatural Use of Clothes: Fashion as Cultural Assault3. Paris Circa 1968: Cool Spaces, Decoration, Revolution4. “You Must Remember this:” Memory Objects in the Age of Erasable Memory5. Garbage in Theory: Waste Aesthetics Envoi: What Should We Do With Our Stuff?NotesIndex

Maurizia Boscagli is Associate Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. She is co-director of COMMA, the Center on Modern Literature, Materialism, and Aesthetics. Her first book was Eye on the Flesh: Fashions of Masculinity in the Early Twentieth Century. She is the translator of Antonio Negri's key work Insurgencies. In 2012 she co-edited Joyce, Benjamin, and Magical Urbanism, published in the European Joyce Studies series.

Boscagli’s readings of objects are genuinely exciting ... For anyone interested in consumer capitalism, mediation, the cultural transition from modernity to postmodernity, or objects in art, however, Stuff Theory is a necessary read. Boscagli’s writing throughout has verve, and the analyses are sharp, incisive, and often surprising.

• Introduction: Of Jena Glassware and Potatoes—Matter in the Moment1. Homeopathic Benjamin: A Flexible Poetics of Matter2. For the Unnatural Use of Clothes: Fashion as Cultural Assault3. Paris Circa 1968: Cool Spaces, Decoration, Revolution4. “You Must Remember this:” Memory Objects in the Age of Erasable Memory5. Garbage in Theory: Waste Aesthetics Envoi: What Should We Do With Our Stuff?NotesIndex