The Call of Things: Jane Bennett Talks About Hoarders at the Vera List Center

Published: Sept. 26, 2011, 10:17 p.m.

\u201cLes chose sont contre nous\u201d ("Things are against us") is the wry slogan of Paul Jennings\u2019 parodic philosophy resistentialism*. But Professor Jane Bennett of Johns Hopkins University doesn\u2019t think so. (*For more on resistentialism, check out: Paul Jennings, "Report on Resistentialism," The Jenguin Pennings, 1963.)