'An old teapot, used daily, can tell me more of my past than
anything I recorded of it.' Sylvia Townsend Warner There are many
ways of telling the story of a life and how we've got to where we
are. The questions of why and how we think the way we do continues
to preoccupy philosophers. In The Stuff of Life, Timothy Morton
chooses the objects that have shaped and punctuated their life to
tell the story of who they are and why they might think the way
they do. These objects are 'things' in the richest sense. They are
beings, non-human beings, that have a presence and a force of their
own. From the looming expanse of Battersea Power Station to a
packet of anti-depressants and a cowboy suit, Morton explores why
'stuff' matters and the life of these things have so powerfully
impinged upon their own. Their realization, through a concealer
stick, that they identify as non-binary reveals the strange and
wonderful ways that objects can form our worlds. Part memoir, part
philosophical exploration of the meaning of a life lived alongside
and through other things, Morton asks us to think about the stuff,
things, objects and buildings that have formed our realities and
who we are and might be.
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