Golf Ball (Object Lessons)
competing claims of origin that pit a native Scots genius against a faceless factory machine.
Harry Brown • Golf Ball (Object Lessons)
tendency of errant golf balls to find the boundary between domesticated and wild landscapes.
Harry Brown • Golf Ball (Object Lessons)
transcendence through negation of the ball.
Harry Brown • Golf Ball (Object Lessons)
Fun lives
Harry Brown • Golf Ball (Object Lessons)
detected in its guts encoded information about how we make things, how we use things, and how we throw things away.
Harry Brown • Golf Ball (Object Lessons)
The ball has gained an immaterial, fetishistic being.
Harry Brown • Golf Ball (Object Lessons)
much in their complex web of relations to other objects as they do in their lonely being.
Harry Brown • Golf Ball (Object Lessons)
half of the present market share in golf balls belongs to four manufactures that emerged from the colonial rubber trade.
Harry Brown • Golf Ball (Object Lessons)
full comprehension of the thing also means seeing it within the social and economic systems that generate it, locating it within webs of things and ideas.