Kevin Hetherington

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that disposal is not just about questions of waste and rubbish but is implicated more broadly in the ways in which people manage absence within social relations, and they suggest that rather than see the rubbish bin as the archetypal conduit of disposal within consumer practices the door might be seen as a better example.

TL;DR: In this article, the structure of feeling and everyday life and the performance of identity in social spaces are discussed. But, the focus is on the interaction between identity, identity, and identity politics.

TL;DR: The Badlands of Modernity as discussed by the authors is an interpretation of modernity as it emerged during the eighteenth century through an analysis of some of the most important social spaces, such as the Palais Royal during the French Revolution, the masonic lodge and in its relationship to civil society and the public sphere and the early factories of the Industrial Revolution.

TL;DR: The authors revisited two classical sites of controversy which have offered frameworks for theorizing the interplay between materiality and sociality: reification and fetishism, and discussed the fate of critical theory and of ethico-political sensibility in the face of heightened uncertainties about the distinction between what is real, what is constructed, and what is imaginary, and between what may count as a person and what as a thing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the everyday ways in which people make place through touch and offer a more general understanding of the coconstruction of place and subjectivity through the role of touch.