1. Cole Porter, “You’ve Got That Thing,” in Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929).
2. Bill Brown, “Thing Theory,” Critical Inquiry 28.1 (2001): 7.
3. Jane Bennett, “The Elements,” postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 4.1 (2013): 109.
4. Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann, “Introduction,” in Material Ecocriticism, ed. Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014), 2.
5. A variety of thinkers work in these related fields: Bruno Latour, Jane Bennett, Graham Harman, Timothy Morton, Levi Bryant, Iain Hamilton, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, and Manuel De Landa, to name a few. See Andrew Cole, “The Call of Things: A Critique of Object-Oriented Ontologies,” minnesota review 80 (2013): 111.