How are things going?

There is a growing tendency in the contemporary humanities to supersede anthropocentric thinking by nonhierarchcal notions, placing humans and nonhumans (animals, plants, objects) on a par. This shift is particularly interesting when considered in the context of the material turn. The aim of this paper is to introduce a new approach towards things through presenting main concepts of thinking about material culture like Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory, Igor Kopytoff's biographies of things, agency and performativity of things. Furthermore the question of things is being considered in the field of contemporary art and its relations with archeology in the analysis of Agnieszka Chojnacka's exhibition Things.