Everyday Life and the Culture of the Thing (Toward the Formulation of the Question)...

Image: Paul Klee, Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine), 1922. Gauche, ink, watercolor, paper.

 By Boris Arvatov (1925), Translated by Christina Kiaer (1997).

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See the full essay here in October  no. 81 (Summer 1997). Also see here for Joshua Simon's The Language of Commodities, in Neomaterialism (2013).