Book Review| June 01 2021 Review: Finding Agency and Humanity in The Queer Life of Things: Performance, Affect, and the More-than-Human, by Anne M. Harris and Stacy Holman Jones The Queer Life of Things: Performance, Affect, and the More-than-Human, by Anne M. Harris and Stacy Holman Jones. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. 158 pages. $85.00 cloth. $80.50 ebook. Justin J. Rudnick Justin J. Rudnick Justin J. Rudnick is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Correspondence to: Justin J. Rudnick, Department of Communication Studies, Minnesota State University, Mankato, 230 Armstrong Hall, 521 Ellis Avenue, Mankato, MN 56001, USA. Email: justin.rudnick@mnsu.edu. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2021) 10 (2): 97–100. https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2021.10.2.97 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Justin J. Rudnick; Review: Finding Agency and Humanity in The Queer Life of Things: Performance, Affect, and the More-than-Human, by Anne M. Harris and Stacy Holman Jones. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 1 June 2021; 10 (2): 97–100. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2021.10.2.97 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentDepartures in Critical Qualitative Research Search It seems our lives are increasingly touched by, affected by, or otherwise sensed through / with / alongside things. On the surface, it might seem as though these various things serve at the pleasure of the human, to assist us in accomplishing our own dreams, drives, and desires. Yet everyone knows of a thing, an object, that offers more than a utilitarian convenience. Some-thing that accumulates meaning, exerts its own presence in the world, and presses upon us in a way that changes us. What would come of our thinking—and our being-in-the-world—if we approached these things, these objects, not as tools for our use but as animate presences in the world with their own histories, their own meanings, absent of, or perhaps alongside, that which we give them? In other words, what if understanding the human condition involved seeing the human “as always and already entangled with other... You do not currently have access to this content.