Estrangement and Thing Theory
Objecthood as an Antilogic of Dissent
Abstract
The practice of estrangement retains an essential political function. It is possible to link this narrative formula to the investigative paths typical of Thing Theory: in this way the perspective guaranteed by the matter can shed light upon the ideological coordinates of capitalist logic, through an interpretation of the commodity in a dissident key according to the suggestion offered by Francesco Orlando in his Freudian theory. This article therefore aims to document the relationship between Šklovskij’s intuition, Thing Theory and Orlando's proposal through a close reading of Solid Object, a short story by Virginia Woolf.
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