July 23rd, 2009 / 10:11 pm
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Significant Objects

Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Rebecca Wolff

Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Rebecca Wolff

THE IDEA

A talented, creative writer invents a story about an object. Invested with new significance by this fiction, the object should — according to our hypothesis — acquire not merely subjective but objective value. How to test our theory? Via eBay!

This sounds interesting.

It was created by Joshua Glenn, a cultural semiotics analyst and independent scholar. Click here for the “About” page & here for the list of items.

7 Comments

  1. michael james

      what is an independent scholar?

  2. michael james

      what is an independent scholar?

  3. Christopher Higgs

      An independent scholar is someone who conducts scholarly research/produces scholarly work/participates in scholarly endeavors, but isn’t affiliated with a university.

  4. Christopher Higgs

      An independent scholar is someone who conducts scholarly research/produces scholarly work/participates in scholarly endeavors, but isn’t affiliated with a university.

  5. Kevin O'Neill
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